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Reynal and Hitchcock	The publishing firm of Reynal and Hitchcock was founded by Eugene Reynal and Curtice Hitchcock in New York in 1933. After Hitchcock's death in 1946, Reynal sold the firm to Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1948. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 318 and see the FOB entries for Harcourt, Brace & Company and (for later years) Reynal and Company.	2008
Riverdeep	The Irish publishing firm Riverdeep was founded in 1995. In 2006 the firm merged with Houghton Mifflin, and was briefly known as Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep or HM Riverdeep. It now forms part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See 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
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
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
Shakespeare Head Press	The Shakespeare Head Press was founded by A. H. Bullen and Frank Sidgwick in 1904. Following Bullen's death in 1920, the firm was purchased by the Oxford publishers Blackwell, and the imprint is still occasionally used by the Blackwell organisation. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007).	2008
Stage Handbooks	The Stage Handbooks series was purchased by A. & C. Black from Pitman in 1981. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black and www.acblack.com.	2007
Stuttgarter Hausbücherei	Stuttgarter Hausbücherei was established in 1948 as a German national book club and the first significant firm controlled by Georg von Holtzbrinck. In the late 1950s the firm was renamed Deutscher Bücherbund. Deutscher Bücherbund remained the principal company within the Holtzbrink Group until the 1980s, but in 1989 it was sold to Kirch Group. The Kirch Group (KirchGruppe) became insolvent and went out of existence in 2002. Rights in Deutscher Bücherbund appear to have been acquired by the Bertelsmann Group, and www.buecherbund.de now diverts to www.derclub.de (the website of Der Club, owned by Bertelsmann).	2008
T. B. Harms Company	The music publishing firm of T. B. Harms was established in New York City around 1892. In 1929 the firm was purchased by Warner Brothers Pictures, and it is identified as one of the predecessor firms of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. in the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
T. H. Bricknell	The publishing house of the Bricknell family is the Blackmore Press of North Dorset. In the 1930s the firm published as "T. H. Bricknell, the Blackmore Press", but the family name is no longer used.	2008

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