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Frank Schaffer Publications	The educational publishing firm of Frank Schaffer Publications was purchased by McGraw-Hill in 2001. See www.mcgraw-hill.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
Frank Tousey	The publishing firm of Tousey and Small was founded in New York in 1876 by Frank Tousey and George G. Small. In 1879 Tousey purchased Small's share in the business and began to trade as Frank Tousey. Tousey died in 1902. In 1920 the firm was purchased by Street and Smith. It continued to publish until 1929, when the Frank Tousey name ceased to be used. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 468-470 and see the FOB entry for Street and Smith.	2009
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. P. Putnam's Sons	The publishing firm of G. Putnam Broadway was founded by George Palmer Putnam in 1848. On his death in 1872 the name of the firm was changed to G. P. Putnam's Sons. In 1965 the firm acquired Berkley Books and became known as Putnam Berkley. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Garland Science	Garland Science Publishing was founded in the 1980s. The firm was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1996. See www.garlandscience.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
George Bell & Sons Ltd	George Bell established his firm in London in 1839. From 1856 to 1875 the firm was known as Bell & Daldy; it then became George Bell & Sons Ltd. It remained a family firm until 1977, when it was sold to Robin Hyman and renamed Bell & Hyman Ltd. In 1986 Bell & Hyman Ltd merged with George Allen & Unwin to form Unwin Hyman. In 1990 Unwin Hyman was sold to HarperCollins, part of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2008
George Faulkner and Sons	The Manchester printing firm of George Faulkner and Sons was purchased by McCorquodale in 1962. See the FOB entry for McCorquodale.	2008
George Routledge & Sons	George Routledge began publishing in 1836 and founded his publishing company George Routledge & Co. in 1851. After briefly being known as Routledge, Warne & Routledge, it became George Routledge & Sons in 1865. In 1912 George Routledge & Sons merged with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2006
Grolier, Inc.	Grolier was founded in Boston in 1895 as the Grolier Society. See the account of the firm in Mary Lou Roberts & Paul D. Berger: 'Direct marketing management' (2nd ed., 1998). Grolier was purchased by Hachette in 1988. In 2000 most of the Grolier firm (but not its Franklin Watts and Orchard divisions) was acquired by Scholastic, Inc. See 'The Bookseller', 21 April 2000, and www.scholastic.com.	2008

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