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Platt and Munk	The children's publishing house of Platt and Munk was founded in 1921. The firm was acquired by Grosset & Dunlap in 1977. In 1982 Grosset & Dunlap was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons (of the Putnam Berkley Group). Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Pratt, Woodford and Company	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Preston	The music publishing firm of Preston (or Preston & Son) was founded by John Preston in the 1770s and subsequently managed by his son Thomas Preston. The firm was purchased by Coventry & Hollier around 1834, and much of the business of Coventry & Hollier was purchased by Novello in 1849 and 1851. Novello is now part of Chester Music and Novello & Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.chesternovello.com.	2007
Purnell & Sons	The firm of Purnell & Sons was acquired by Robert Maxwell and became one of the component parts of the British Printing Corporation in 1964. Thereafter the Purnell firm and its titles were closely associated with the firm of Macdonald up to and after the break-up of the Robert Maxwell empire. See the FOB entry for Macdonald & Co. The recommended approach is to proceed on a title-by-title basis. Educational titles are likely to be with Pearson Education; children's books are likely to be with Hodder Children's Books; other titles may be with Little, Brown. See www.pearsoned.com; www.hodderchildrens.co.uk; and www.littlebrown.co.uk.	2008
R. & L. Locker	R. & L. Locker was the publishing firm of Raymond and Lilian Locker, founded in Hanley in the early 1940s. In January 1954 R. & L. Locker "suddenly ceased trading". See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 26.	2008
R. F. Fenno and Company	R. F. Fenno founded his publishing firm in New York in 1885. In 1929 Fenno retired from the firm and it was renamed Diehl, Landau and Pettit (q.v.). Diehl, Landau and Pettit subsequently became the Landau Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 161, which names Louis Landau as the President of the firm in 1986.	2009
R. H. Russell and Son	Robert H. Russell founded his publishing firm in New York in 1888, in association with his son Robert Jr. The firm began with the purchase of the A. T. B. DeWitt Publishing Company. In 1903 the firm was acquired by Harper and Brothers (later Harper and Row). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 407; 'Publishers Weekly' 63 (28 March 1903); and the FOB entry for Harper and Row.	2009
R. S. Peale and Company	R. S. Peale and Company was one of several publishing houses which merged in 1892 to form the Werner Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 480 and see the FOB entry for the Werner Company.	2009
Rawson Associates	According to the Simon & Schuster website, Rawson Associates was part of Atheneum Publishers at the time of the acquisition of Atheneum by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1978. See the FOB entry for Atheneum Publishers, which indicates that Atheneum was included in the part of Charles Scribner's Sons which was acquired by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Reader's Digest Association	Reader's Digest Association (RDA) was founded in 1921-22 by DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace. In 2007 Reader's Digest Association was purchased by the private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings LLC. See www.rd.com.	2008

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