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F. M. Lupton Publishing Company	Frank Moore Lupton founded his publishing firm in New York around 1882. The firm was renamed the Federal Book Company in 1902 and went out of business about two years later. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 288.	2014
F. S. Crofts Company	F. S. Crofts Company was a publishing firm founded in 1924. In 1948 the firm merged with Appleton-Century and became Appleton-Century-Crofts. See the FOB entry for Appleton-Century-Crofts, which indicates that part of the firm has passed into the ownership of Pearson and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company.	2008
Farmer, Brace and Company	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Farrar, Straus & Giroux	The publishing firm of Farrar, Straus & Company was founded by John Farrar and Roger Straus in 1946. The firm was renamed Farrar, Straus & Young and then Farrar, Straus & Cudahy before becoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com.	2008
Fields, Osgood and Company	Fields, Osgood and Company was formed in Boston in 1868 when James T. Fields, James Ripley Osgood and John S. Clark purchased Howard Ticknor's share in Ticknor and Fields. The firm ceased to exist in 1870 when Fields retired and was replaced as a partner by Benjamin Ticknor. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 400, and see the FOB entries for Ticknor and Fields; James R. Osgood and Company; Houghton, Osgood and Company; and Ticknor and Company. All of these firms are regarded as predecessor firms of Houghton Mifflin. See the Company History page of www.hmco.com.	2009
Fitzgerald Publishing Co.	Fitzgerald Publishing Co. was founded as a small-scale life sciences publisher. In 2002 the firm was purchased by Wiley. See 'Publishers Weekly', 9 September 2002, and www.wiley.com.	2008
Four Seas Company	The Four Seas Company was founded as a publishing firm in Boston in 1910 by Edmund R. Brown. In 1930 Four Seas was one of a number of Boston firms which merged to form Bruce Humphries. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73 & 154; the FOB entries for Bruce Humphries and its successor firm Branden Press; and www.brandenbooks.com.	2008
Fox, Duffield and Company	The publishing firm of Fox, Duffield and Company was founded by Rector Fox and Pitts Duffield in New York in 1903. Fox retired in 1906, and the firm became known first as Duffield and Company and then as Duffield and Green. See the FOB entry for Duffield and Green and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 131.	2008
Frank Cass	Frank Cass & Co. Ltd was founded by Mr Frank Cass in 1957. It was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2013
Frank Starr & Co.	Frank Starr & Co. was an imprint of Beadle & Co. (Beadle and Adams) in the late 1870s. See the FOB entry for Beadle and Adams.	2013

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