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| Fitzgerald Publishing Co. | Fitzgerald Publishing Co. was founded as a small-scale life sciences publisher. In 2002 the firm was purchased by Wiley. See 'Publishers Weekly', 9 September 2002, and www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Free Press of Glencoe | The Free Press of Glencoe was founded in 1947. In 1960-61 it was purchased by the Crowell-Collier division of the Macmillan Company of New York. The Crowell-Collier business and imprints (including Free Press) formed part of the purchase of Macmillan Inc. by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com. | 2008 |
| Frommer's | Frommer's publications, including Frommer's Travel Guides, were published by Arthur Frommer International, Inc. from the early 1960s. After passing through several ownerships, the firm was purchased by Wiley in 2001. See www.frommers.com and www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| G. B. Zieber and Company | The publishing firm of Burgess and Zieber was founded in Philadelphia in 1843 and became G. B. Zieber and Company the following year. The firm went out of business in 1848. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 502. | 2009 |
| G. P. Putnam's Sons | The publishing firm of G. Putnam Broadway was founded by George Palmer Putnam in 1848. On his death in 1872 the name of the firm was changed to G. P. Putnam's Sons. In 1965 the firm acquired Berkley Books and became known as Putnam Berkley. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| G. Putnam Broadway | The publishing firm of G. Putnam Broadway was founded by George Palmer Putnam in 1848. On his death in 1872 the name of the firm was changed to G. P. Putnam's Sons. In 1965 the firm acquired Berkley Books and became known as Putnam Berkley. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| G. T. Foulis & Co. | G. T. Foulis & Co. was a specialist road transport and motor car publisher. The firm was taken over by Haynes Publishing and in the 1980s the imprint Foulis/Haynes was used. All publications now, however, bear the imprint of Haynes Publishing. See www.haynes.co.uk. | 2007 |
| G. W. Carleton | The publishing firm of G. W. Carleton was founded in New York in 1861 as the successor firm to Rudd and Carleton (q.v.), on the retirements of Edward P. Rudd and his father George Rudd. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of George Washington Carleton. From 1871 George Wellington Dillingham became a partner. In 1886 Carleton retired and the firm continued as the G. W. Dillingham Company until it went bankrupt in 1916. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 84-85, and see the FOB entry for the G. W. Dillingham Company. | 2009 |
| G. W. Dillingham Company | The G. W. Dillingham Company was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1886 as the successor firm to G. W. Carleton (q.v.), on the retirement of George Washington Carleton. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of George Wellington Dillingham. Dillingham died in 1895, and the firm was managed by his son Frank A. Dillingham and other directors until it went bankrupt in 1916. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 124-125. | 2009 |
| Gaia Books | Gaia Books was acquired by the Octopus Publishing Group (which is owned by Hachette) in 2004. See www.octopus-publishing.co.uk. | 2007 |
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