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Hodder & Stoughton	Hodder & Stoughton was founded in 1868. In 1993 the firm merged with Headline to form Hodder Headline. Hodder Headline was purchased by Hachette from W. H. Smith in 2004. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk.	2006
Hogan and Thompson	The printing and publishing firm of Hogan and Thompson was founded in Philadelphia in 1832 by David Hogan and John Thompson. The firm went out of business in 1852. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 204.	2009
Hogarth Press Ltd	The Hogarth Press, originally founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, was acquired by Chatto & Windus after World War II. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Random House UK division of Bertelsmann.	2008
Hollis and Carter Ltd	Hollis and Carter was part of the the Bodley Head publishing house from 1962 until 1987. The Bodley Head was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Holloway House Publishing Company	Holloway House Publishing Company was founded in Los Angeles in 1961. The firm was acquired by Kensington Books in 2008. See www.kensingtonbooks.com.	2008
Holt, Rinehart and Winston	The publishing firm of Henry Holt and Company was founded in 1866. See 'The house of Holt, 1866-1946: an editorial history' by Ellen D. Gilbert (1993). In 1959-60 the firm merged with Rinehart and Company and the John C. Winston Company to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Holt, Rinehart and Winston was purchased by CBS in 1967, and was then divided by sales in 1985-1986. Most of the publishing division of CBS was purchased by Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich in 1986, and Holt, Rinehart and Winston became a Harcourt Education imprint. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which indicates that in December 2007 Reed Elsevier sold Harcourt Education to Houghton Mifflin. Holt, Rinehart and Winston is now the Holt McDougal division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Hopwood & Crew	The firm of Hopwood & Crew was founded in 1860. In 1906 it was merged with Eugene Ascherberg & Co. to form Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew. See the FOB entry for Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, which indicates that any surving rights will belong to Warner Chappell Music. See www.warnerchappell.co.uk.	2007
Houghton, Osgood and Company	Houghton, Osgood and Company was one of numerous predecessor firms of Houghton Mifflin. The firm was formed in 1878 by a merger of Hurt & Houghton and James R. Osgood and Company. In 1880 James R. Osgood withdrew from the firm to re-form his own company and Henry Houghton and George Mifflin formed Houghton Mifflin, absorbing the debts of Houghton, Osgood and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 219-220 & 341-347 and see the Company History page of www.hmco.com.	2009
Howard Books	Howard Books was founded as a Christian publishing house in 1969. In 2006 the firm was acquired by Simon & Schuster. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Howard Samuel	The publishing firm of Howard Samuel was acquired by Macgibbon and Kee in 1961. See the FOB entry for Macgibbon and Kee, which indicates that ownership will have passed to William Collins, now part of the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2007

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