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Frederick Muller Ltd	Frederick Muller Ltd was founded as an independent publishing house in the 1930s. The firm was purchased by Harlech Television in 1978 and sold in 1983, after which it was merged with Blond & Briggs Ltd to form Muller, Blond & White Ltd. Muller, Blond & White Ltd was purchased by Century Hutchinson in 1987, and is now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Futura Publishing Company	Futura Publishing Company was founded in 1970 by Steven Korn and Jacques Strauss. In 2002 the firm was purchased by Blackwell Publishing. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007).	2008
Gomme and Marshall	The publishing firm of Gomme and Marshall was founded in New York in 1915 by Laurence James Gomme and John J. Marshall. It was the successor firm to Vaughan and Gomme (q.v.). Marshall withdrew from the firm in 1916, and it continued as Laurence James Gomme, before Gomme closed the firm and ended his publishing career in 1917. Lawrence James Gomme was born in 1882 and died in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 163.	2008
Hayden-McNeil Publishing	Hayden-McNeil Publishing was founded by Patrick Olson in Plymouth, Michigan in 1992. In 2008 the firm was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com.	2008
Hungry Minds, Inc.	The firm of Hungry Minds published the 'For Dummies' series and other educational works. In 2001 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	2008
Isis Medical Media	Isis Medical Media is now part of Taylor & Francis Medicine. See www.isismedical.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2006
Ivan Obolensky, Inc.	The publishing firm of McDowell, Obolensky was founded in New York in 1957 by David McDowell and Ivan Obolensky. In 1960 McDowell left the firm, which continued as Ivan Obolensky, Inc. In 1967 the firm was reconstituted as Astor-Honor, Inc., publishing Astor Books and Honor Books. Astor-Honor went out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 229-231.	2008
J. M. Dent	J. M. Dent was founded by Joseph Malaby Dent in 1888, and published the Everyman Library from 1906. The firm was purchased by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1988. See the Weidenfeld & Nicolson entry in FOB and www.orionbooks.co.uk. Dent is now an imprint of Orion Books, which in turn is owned by Hachette.	2008
James Munroe and Company	The bookselling and publishing firm of Munroe and Nichols was founded in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1830s by James Munroe and George Nichols. From 1835 the firm became known as James Munroe and Company. Munroe died in 1861 and the firm went out of business in 1861 or 1862. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 319.	2009
Jerome H. Remick & Co.	The music publishing firm of Jerome H. Remick & Co. was established in New York City in 1906, after the dissolution of Shapiro-Remick & Company. It later became known as the Remick Music Corporation. In 1929 the firm was purchased by Warner Brothers Pictures, and it is identified as one of the predecessor firms of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. in the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007

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