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| Richard Bentley & Son | Richard Bentley was part of the firm of Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley from 1829 for three years. He then founded the firm of Richard Bentley in 1832. In 1898 the firm of Richard Bentley & Son was purchased by Macmillan. See the FOB entry for Macmillan. | 2006 |
| Richard G. Badger and Company | The publishing firm of Richard G. Badger and Company was founded in Boston around 1896. In 1932 the firm was purchased by Bruce Humphries. See the FOB entry for Bruce Humphries, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 32. | 2009 |
| Rinehart and Company | The publishing firm of Rinehart and Company (previously Farrar & Rinehart) merged with the firms of Henry Holt and Company and John C. Winston Company in 1959-1960 to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. See the FOB entry for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicates that the firm is now part of Harcourt Education, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com. | 2008 |
| Rivington | The publishing firm of the Rivington family was founded in the early eighteenth century. It was sold to Longman in 1890, on the retirement of Francis Hansard Rivington. There was, however, another firm founded by Septimus Rivington which was active in publishing from 1897. The principal Rivington rights remained with Longman. These rights were sold to Evans Brothers in 1962. See 'The Times', 15 August 1962, and www.evansbooks.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Robert Aitken | Robert Aitken founded his firm in Philadelphia in 1773 as a bookseller, stationer, bookbinder and publisher. Following his death in 1802, the firm was managed by his daughter Jane Aitken. The firm went out business, on account of family debts, in 1813. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 5. | 2009 |
| Robert M. DeWitt Publisher | The publishing firm of DeWitt and Davenport was founded in New York in 1848 by Robert M. DeWitt and James Davenport. The partnership was dissolved in 1856, but the firm continued as Robert M. DeWitt Publisher from 1857. DeWitt died in 1877 and the firm went out of existence. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 118. | 2009 |
| Robert M. McBride and Company | Robert M. McBride and Company was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1915 by Robert Medill McBride. Its predecessor firms were called McBride, Winston and Company and McBride, Nast and Company (q.v). In 1948 the firm was in financial difficulties and sold sixty of its titles to Dodd, Mead (q.v.). In 1949 the remainder of the firm was sold to Outlet Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 224-227, and see the FOB entry for Outlet Book Company, which indicates the firm is today a division of Random House, Inc. (www.randomhouse.com), known as Random House Value Publishing. | 2008 |
| Robert Ross & Co. Ltd | Robert Ross & Co. Ltd was founded in the 1930s as a nautical publishing company. In 1952, the firm changed its name to Adlard Coles Ltd, and since 1990 it has been known as Adlard Coles Nautical. See the FOB entry for Adlard Coles Nautical and www.acblack.com. | 2007 |
| 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 |
| S. Pearson and Son | S. Pearson and Son is one of the forerunner companies of the Pearson Group. It was founded in 1844 as a small building firm. See the company history pages of www.pearson.com. | 2007 |
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