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| Gale and Polden | The printing and publishing firm Gale and Polden were based in Aldershot, Hampshire, UK, and specialised in military books. There is a timeline history of the firm from 1866 to 1981 on the website of the Aldershot Military Museum (www3.hants.gov.uk/museum/aldershot-museum/local-history-aldershot/gale-and-polden/gale-and-polden-timeline.htm). In 1981 the firm went out of business as part of the collapse of Maxwell Communications. | 2008 |
| Gambit, Inc. | The small publishing firm of Gambit was founded in Boston in 1968 by Lovell Thompson. In 1984 the firm was acquired by Harvard Common Press. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 156-158; 'Publishers weekly', 27 April 1984; and harvardcommonpress.com. | 2008 |
| Garden City Publishing Company | Garden City Publishing Company was founded as a reprint subsidiary of Doubleday. See the FOB entry for Doubleday & Company, which indicates that the firm was purchased by Bertelsmann in 1986, and is now a division of Random House. See www.randomhouse.com/doubleday and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Garland Science | Garland Science Publishing was founded in the 1980s. The firm was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1996. See www.garlandscience.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| GEE Publishing | Alfred William Gee began as a publisher in 1874, publishing 'The Accountant'. In 1980 the firm of GEE Publishing was acquired by the Thomson Corporation. GEE now forms part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory alongside Sweet & Maxwell. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com | 2007 |
| General Hall | General Hall was founded as an academic publishing firm, with a specialism in sociology. In 2000 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| Geographia | Geographia was a London-based map company founded by Alexander Gross in the early 1900s. In 1985 Geographia was sold by Century Hutchinson to Bartholomew, which had recently become a part of News International (now News Corporation). See the FOB entry for Bartholomew, and see www.newscorp.com and www.bartholomewmaps.com. | 2008 |
| George Allen & Unwin | The firm of George Allen & Sons was founded in 1871. In 1914, when there were financial difficulties, an interest was acquired by Stanley Unwin and the firm became known as George Allen & Unwin. George Allen & Unwin merged with Bell & Hyman in 1986, to form Unwin Hyman. Unwin Hyman was purchased by HarperCollins in 1990. Although HarperCollins subsequently sold the Unwin Hyman academic division to Routledge, the UK rights of George Allen & Unwin remain in the ownership of HarperCollins, which in turn is owned by News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. Allen & Unwin still trades as an independent publisher in Australia and New Zealand. | 2007 |
| George Bell & Sons Ltd | George Bell established his firm in London in 1839. From 1856 to 1875 the firm was known as Bell & Daldy; it then became George Bell & Sons Ltd. It remained a family firm until 1977, when it was sold to Robin Hyman and renamed Bell & Hyman Ltd. In 1986 Bell & Hyman Ltd merged with George Allen & Unwin to form Unwin Hyman. In 1990 Unwin Hyman was sold to HarperCollins, part of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. | 2008 |
| George Coolidge | George Coolidge founded his publishing firm in Boston around 1840. The firm went out of existence around 1889. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 103. | 2009 |
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