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| Rudd and Carleton | The publishing firm of Rudd and Carleton was founded in New York in 1857 as the successor firm to Livermore and Rudd. In 1857 Edward Livermore retired from the firm and its owners became Edward P. Rudd, his father George Rudd and George Washington Carleton. In 1861 both the Rudds retired, and the firm continued as G. W. Carleton. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 398, and see the FOB entry for G. W. Carleton. | 2009 |
| Running Press Publishers | Running Press Publishers was founded as an independent trade publishing firm in Philadelphia in 1972. In 2002 the firm was acquired by the Perseus Books Group. See www.perseusbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd | The firm of Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd was founded by Rupert Hart-Davis and David Garnett in 1946. The firm was purchased by Heinemann in 1956, then by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1962, and by the Granada Group in 1963. Finally in 1983 the firm and the imprint were purchased by William Collins Sons & Co. See the FOB entry for William Collins Sons & Co. | 2008 |
| Ryerson Press | Ryerson Press was founded in 1829 by Egerton Ryerson, initially with the name Methodist Book and Publishing House. The firm was owned by the United Church until 1970, when it was acquired by the McGraw-Hill Book Company of Canada, subsequently McGraw-Hill Ryerson. See www.macgrawhill.ca. | 2008 |
| Saturday Review Press | Saturday Review Press was established in 1971 as the successor firm to McCall Books (q.v.). In 1973 Saturday Review Press was sold to E. P. Dutton and Company, which is now part of the Penguin Group. The use of the name Saturday Review Press ceased in 1977. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 328. | 2008 |
| Shapiro-Remick & Company | The music publishing firm of Shapiro-Remick & Company was established in New York City in 1902 by Maurice Shapiro and Jerome H. Remick. The firm was dissolved in 1906, and rights in its catalogue passed to the new firm of Jerome H. Remick & Co. See the FOB entry for Jerome H. Remick, which indicates that Shapiro-Remick and the Remick Music Corporation are now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com. | 2007 |
| Silver Burdett Ginn Religion | See the FOB entry for Silver Burdett Company for the history of Silver Burdett Ginn. In 2007 Silver Burdett Ginn Religion was separated from the rest of Silver Burdett Ginn and sold by Pearson Education to the RCL Benziger division of CFM Religion Publishing Group. See 'Publishers weekly', 7 September 2007, and www.rclweb.com. | 2008 |
| Sir Richard Phillips | The bookselling, printing and publishing firm of Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1940) worked closely with the firm of Longman (then Longman, Hurst, Rees and Co.) and was eventually taken over by them. See the FOB entry for Longman, which is now part of the Pearson Group, and www.pearson.com. | 2006 |
| SR Books | The firm of SR Books was founded as the book publishing division of Scholarly Resources, Inc. Since 2004, SR Books has been an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| Ticknor, Reed and Fields | William D. Tickner was a partner in Allen and Ticknor (1832-1834). He then ran his own publishing company in Boston from 1834. In 1843 John Reed and James T. Fields became partners in the firm of William D. Ticknor and Company, and in 1849 the firm was renamed Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Reed withdrew from the company in 1854 and it continued initially as Ticknor and Fields. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 461-466, and see the FOB entry for Ticknor and Fields. | 2009 |
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