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| Robert Royce | The publishing firm of Robert Royce was purchased by Cassell in 1987. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. | 2007 |
| Robert Snow Means Co. Inc. | The Massachusetts publishing firm of Robert Snow Means Co. Inc. was purchased by McCorquodale in 1985. See the FOB entry for McCorquodale. | 2008 |
| Roberts Rinehart | The publishing firm of Roberts Rinehart was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Group in 2000 and now forms part of Taylor Trade Publishing. See www.rlpgtrade.com. | 2008 |
| Robinson Publishing Ltd | Robinson Publishing Ltd was founded by Nick Robinson in 1983. In 1999 the firm merged with Constable & Co. Ltd to form Constable & Robinson. See www.constablerobinson.com. | 2006 |
| Robson Books | The publishing firm of Robson Books was founded by Jeremy Robson in the mid-1970s. It became an imprint of Chrysalis Books, and since 2005 has been an imprint of Anova Books. See www.anovabooks.com. Jeremy Robson's new independent company is called JR Books - see www.jrbooks.com. | 2007 |
| Rough Guides | The travel publishing firm of Rough Guides was founded by Mark Ellingham and others in 1981. In 2002 the firm was acquired by Pearson and brought under the Penguin division. See www.roughguides.com and www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| Round Hall | The Dublin-based legal publishing firm of Round Hall is now part of the Sweet & Maxwell Group, which in turn is part of the Thomson Corporation. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com. | 2006 |
| Routledge & Kegan Paul | 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 |
| Row, Peterson & Co. | The Illinois publishing firm of Row, Peterson & Co. merged with Harper & Brothers in 1962 to form Harper & Row. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com. In 2001 HarperCollins Publishers was reorganised into two divisions: General Books and Collins. | 2009 |
| Roycroft Printing Shop | The Roycroft Printing Shop was founded in East Aurora, New York, in 1895 by Elbert Hubbard and others. It became a printing and publishing firm influenced by William Morris and the Kelmscott Press. Hubbard and his wife died in the sinking of the 'Lusitania' in 1915. The firm was continued by Elbert Hubbard II, until it went bankrupt in 1938. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 401-406. | 2009 |
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