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Fred J. Hamill Company	The Fred J. Hamill Company flourished in the 1890s, after which its publishing list was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2008
Frommer's	Frommer's publications, including Frommer's Travel Guides, were published by Arthur Frommer International, Inc. from the early 1960s. After passing through several ownerships, the firm was purchased by Wiley in 2001. See www.frommers.com and www.wiley.com.	2008
G. T. Foulis & Co.	G. T. Foulis & Co. was a specialist road transport and motor car publisher. The firm was taken over by Haynes Publishing and in the 1980s the imprint Foulis/Haynes was used. All publications now, however, bear the imprint of Haynes Publishing. See www.haynes.co.uk.	2007
G. W. Dillingham Company	The G. W. Dillingham Company was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1886 as the successor firm to G. W. Carleton (q.v.), on the retirement of George Washington Carleton. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of George Wellington Dillingham. Dillingham died in 1895, and the firm was managed by his son Frank A. Dillingham and other directors until it went bankrupt in 1916. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 124-125.	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
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
Intext, Inc.	Intext, Inc. was founded around 1900 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The firm's original name was International Textbook Company. In 1974 Intext was purchased by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., which in turn was purchased by Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) in 1978. HarperCollins is a division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2006
Isaiah Thomas	Isaiah Thomas founded his printing and publishing firm in Boston in 1770. The firm moved to Worcester, Massachusetts in 1775 and went out of business in 1802. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 459-461.	2009
J. E. Tilton and Company	The publishing firm of J. E. Tilton and Company was founded in Boston in 1859 by John E. Tilton and Stephen Willis Tilton. The firm went out of existence in 1874. Stephen Willis Tilton later founded the firm of S. W. Tilton and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 146.	2009

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