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George Faulkner and Sons	The Manchester printing firm of George Faulkner and Sons was purchased by McCorquodale in 1962. See the FOB entry for McCorquodale.	2008
George H. Doran Company	The George H. Doran Company merged with Doubleday in 1927 to form Doubleday, Doran "the largest publishing concern in the English-speaking world" (Random House website). Doubleday, Doran was renamed Doubleday & Company in 1946 and is now part of Random House. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See the FOB entry for Doubleday; www.randomhouse.com/doubleday; and www.bertelsmann.com. For the life and career of George H. Doran (1869-1956), see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 119-122.	2008
George Newnes Limited	George Newnes began his publishing firm with the publication of 'Tit-Bits' in 1881. George Newnes Limited was one of three companies which merged in 1963 to form IPC (International Publishing Corporation). IPC was purchased by the Reed Group in 1970, and then by a Cinven-backed consortium in 1998, before being purchased by AOL Time Warner in 2001. See www.ipcmedia.com, which still includes some famous Newnes titles such as 'Homes & Gardens'.	2008
George Routledge & Sons	George Routledge began publishing in 1836 and founded his publishing company George Routledge & Co. in 1851. After briefly being known as Routledge, Warne & Routledge, it became George Routledge & Sons in 1865. In 1912 George Routledge & Sons merged with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2006
George W. Jacobs Company	The George W. Jacobs Company was established in Philadelphia in 1892. In 1925 the publishing operation of the Jacobs Company was purchased by Durant L. Macrae and Allan M. Smith and renamed as Macrae Smith Company. See the FOB entry for Macrae Smith Company and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 216.	2013
George Webb Bookbinders	The firm of George Webb Bookbinders (including its wholly owned subsidiary Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd) was sold to Marshall, Morgan and Scott in 1973. Marshall, Morgan and Scott merged with Pickering & Inglis in the mid-1980s to form Marshall Pickering. See the FOB entry for Marshall Pickering, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Zondervan division of News Corporation. See www.zondervan.com.	2007
Georges Charpentier	The publisher Georges Charpentier (1846-1905) was the son of the publisher Gervais Charpentier. After being fired by his father, he began working for the firm of Maurice Dreyfous, whose authors included Émile Zola. In the late 1870s, Charpentier formed his own publishing house, initially to publish 'La vie moderne', but soon becoming Zola's principal publisher. In 1890 the firm changed its name from Georges Charpentier to G. Charpentier & E. Fasquelle. In 1896 Eugène Fasquelle became sole owner of the firm, although he continued to use the Charpentier name for many years. In 1957 the firm of Fasquelle was purchased by Hachette. In 1959 Fasquelle was merged with another recent Hachette acquisition, Grasset, to form Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, which is still based in Paris. See www.hachette.com and www.grasset.fr.	2008
Ginn & Company	Ginn & Company was founded in the 1880s as an education publishing house. The firm was purchased in 1985-86 by Simon & Schuster. In 1998 all the Simon & Schuster educational businesses, including Ginn & Company, were sold to Pearson, which formed a new company called Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Ginn-Blaisdell	Ginn-Blaisdell was the successor company to Blaisdell Publishing in Waltham, Massachusetts from the 1960s. The firm was formerly a division of the Xerox Corporation, but was later acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	2008
GIT Verlag	The German publishing firm GIT Verlag is now part of the VCH group, which in turn is part of Wiley. See www.wiley-vch.de.	2008

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