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Lydia R. Bailey	The Bailey family printing and publishing firm was founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1772 and moved to Philadelphia in 1778. The firm was first named Francis Bailey, and became F. and R. Bailey in 1797. From 1808 the firm traded as Lydia R. Bailey. It went out of business in 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 33.	2009
Newton Falls Paper Company	Newton Falls Paper Company was an early acquisition of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1920. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
P. F. Collier & Son	'Collier's Weekly' was founded in 1888 (as 'Collier's Once A Week') and formed the early basis of the publishing house of P. F. Collier & Son. Peter Fenelon Collier died in 1909. In 1919 P. F. Collier & Son was purchased by Crowell and the firm was renamed Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Crowell-Collier was purchased by the Macmillan Company of New York in 1960. The Crowell-Collier business and imprints formed part of the purchase of Macmillan Inc. by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com.	2006
Peter F. Cunningham and Son	Peter F. Cunningham founded his publishing firm in Philadelphia around 1860. In 1873 the firm became Peter F. Cunningham and Son. In 1908 it was purchased by P. J. Kenedy and Sons. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 110 and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons.	2009
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
Red Fox	Red Fox was founded around 1990 and is an imprint of Random House UK. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Resources for Christian Living	Resources for Christian Living (RCL) was purchased by CFM Religion Publishing Group from RCL Enterprises, Inc. in 2007. CFM then merged RCL-Resources for Christian Living with its newly acquired Benziger imprint to form RCL Benziger. See www.rclweb.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
S. Fischer Verlag	The German publishing firm of S. Fischer Verlag was founded by Samuel Fischer in 1886. In the 1960s the firm was acquired by Deutscher Bücherbund, part of the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH. Although Deutscher Bücherbund was sold by Holtzbrinck to Kirch in 1989, S. Fischer Verlag remains part of the Holtzbrinck Group. See www.holtzbrinck.com and www.fischerverlage.de.	2008
Scott Foresman	The Scott Foresman imprint was founded in 1889. It is now part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. The firm of Scott Foresman & Co. was purchased by Time Inc. in 1985 and then sold to Harper & Row in 1989. News Corporation incorporated Scott Foresman into HarperCollins Educational Publishers and then sold HarperCollins Educational to Addison-Wesley in 1996. See the FOB entry for Addison-Wesley, which has been part of the Pearson Group since 1988.	2008

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