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E. P. Dutton and Company	Edward Payson Dutton founded a book-selling firm in Boston in 1852, and began publishing in the 1860s. The firm was acquired by New American Library, and in 1986 New American Library was purchased by Penguin Group USA, which still uses the Dutton imprint. See us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Editions du Centre de Psychologie Appliquée	Les Editions du Centre de Psychologie Appliquée constituted a French testing business which was acquired in 2002 by the Psychological Corporation / Harcourt Assessment, then a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier. In 2008 Harcourt Assessment was sold by Reed Elsevier to Pearson. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com.	2008
Editions Russes de Musique	Editions Russes de Musique was founded by Sergei and Natalya Koussevitzky in 1909. In 1947 the catalogue of Editions Russes de Musique was purchased by Boosey & Hawkes. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.boosey.com.	2008
Edward Dunigan and Brother	The publishing firm of Edward Dunigan and Brother was founded in New York around 1840 by Edward Dunigan and James P. Kirker. Dunigan died in 1853 and the firm went out of existence on the death of Kirker in 1868. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 146.	2009
F. W. Dodge	The firm of F. W. Dodge was founded as a provider of information and analysis for construction specialists. In 1961 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com and www.fwdodge.com.	2008
Fitzroy Dearborn	Fitzroy Dearborn is a publisher of reference books and encyclopaedias. It was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2002. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.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
Fraser & Dunlop	The Fraser & Dunlop literary agency was formed in 1952. In 1988 it merged with the firm of A. D. Peters to form Peters, Fraser & Dunlop (PFD). See www.pfd.co.uk.	2008
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
George H. Doran Company	The George H. Doran Company merged with Doubleday in 1927 to form Doubleday, Doran "the largest publishing concern in the English-speaking world" (Random House website). Doubleday, Doran was renamed Doubleday & Company in 1946 and is now part of Random House. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See the FOB entry for Doubleday; www.randomhouse.com/doubleday; and www.bertelsmann.com. For the life and career of George H. Doran (1869-1956), see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 119-122.	2008

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