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| Gregg Publishing Company | John Robert Gregg (1867-1948) invented his own shorthand system and published books about it. Gregg Publishing Company was formed for this purpose, in Chicago. In 1948 the firm was acquired by the McGraw-Hill Book Company. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. There have been several other small firms called Gregg Publishing, including one based in Haywards Heath, UK. | 2008 |
| Grenville Press | Grenville Press was the original name of Scolar Press. See the FOB entry for Scolar Press. | 2007 |
| Grossman Publishers | Grossman Publishers was founded in New York in 1962 by Richard L. Grossman. In 1968 the firm was acquired by Viking Press (see 'Publishers' Weekly', 16 September 1968). Grossman continued as a Viking imprint until 1984. See the FOB entry for Viking (now part of the Pearson Group) and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 167-168. | 2008 |
| Grove Press | Grove Press was founded in New York in 1951 by Barney J. Rosset Jr. In 1985 the firm was acquired by Ann Getty and George Weidenfield and became known first as Grove Weidenfeld (q.v.) and then as Grove Nicolson. In 1993 the firm was merged with Atlantic Monthly Press to form Grove/Atlantic Inc. See www.groveatlantic.com. | 2008 |
| Gulf Publishing | The firm of Gulf Publishing was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Group in 2001 and now forms part of Taylor Trade Publishing. See www.rlpgtrade.com. | 2008 |
| H. B. Pearson | H. B. Pearson founded his publishing firm in Cincinnati around 1850. The firm went out of existence around 1855. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356. | 2009 |
| H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss | The publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss was founded in Philadelphia in 1850 by Horace C. Peck and Theodore Bliss. The firm got into financial difficulties during the Civil War and the partnership was dissolved in 1862. After the war Peck and Bliss briefly formed their own separate firms, which have entries in FOB. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356. | 2009 |
| Halstead Press | According to the catalogue of the archive of Angus and Robertson in the State Library of New South Wales, Angus and Robertson purchased the printing firm Eagle Press in the 1920s and in 1929 renamed it Halstead Press. In 1972 Halstead Press was sold by Angus and Robertson to John Sands Pty Ltd. See www.johnsands.com.au. | 2009 |
| Hamlyn | Paul Hamlyn sold his first publishing firm in 1964, and went on to form the Octopus Publishing Group, of which Hamlyn was a major imprint. The Octopus Group was purchased by Hachette in 2001. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Hans Zell Publishing | Hans Zell was previously an imprint of the Bowker-Saur division of Reed Elsevier. See the FOB entries for Bowker and Saur. This arrangement came to an end in 1998, and Hans Zell Publishing Consultants is now an independent firm, with a specialism in books on African subjects, based in Lochcarron in the Scottish Highlands. See www.hanszell.co.uk. | 2008 |
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