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Eisendraht	The firm of Eisendraht was purchased by Swets & Zeitlinger in 1918. Swets & Zeitlinger is now part of the Taylor & Francis Group. See the FOB entry for Swets & Zeitlinger and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2006
Elm Tree Books	Elm Tree was bought by Penguin UK in March 1985. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com. It is believed that the name "Elm Tree Books" has not been used since about 1990.	2014
Embassy Books Ltd	Embassy Books Ltd was a publishing firm based in Toronto. In 1944 the firm was acquired by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, and later incorporated into McGraw-Hill Ryerson. See www.mcgrawhill.ca.	2008
Ernest Benn Ltd	Ernest Benn was purchased by A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd in 1984. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	2008
Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) Ltd	The publishing firm of Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) Ltd was established as a Nigerian company by Evans Brothers UK in 1966. The firm retains an association with the British Evans Publishing Group, but is now Nigerian-owned, under the auspices of the Otunba Adekunle Ojora. See www.evanspublishers.com.ng.	2008
Everybody's Books	Everybody's Books was a publisher of popular fiction in the post-war period. According to Steve Holland, the firm went out of business in 1948. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 19.	2008
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
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
Fawcett Books	Fawcett Books was formed in 1950 as part of the Fawcett Publications comic magazine company. The firm was purchased by CBS in 1977, and sold in 1982 to Random House. Random House was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998, and Fawcett Books remains a Random House / Bertelsmann imprint. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Fernhurst Books	Fernhurst Books was a specialist sailing, boating and nautical publishing firm. In 2006 the firm was acquired by Wiley and became Wiley Nautical. See www.wileynautical.com.	2008

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