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| Roaring Brook Press | Roaring Brook Press was founded in 2001 in Connecticut as a publisher of children's books. In 2004 the firm was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com. | 2008 |
| 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 |
| Robinson Publishing Ltd | Robinson Publishing Ltd was founded by Nick Robinson in 1983. In 1999 the firm merged with Constable & Co. Ltd to form Constable & Robinson. See www.constablerobinson.com. | 2006 |
| 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 |
| Routledge & Kegan Paul | George Routledge began publishing in 1836 and founded his publishing company George Routledge & Co. in 1851. After briefly being known as Routledge, Warne & Routledge, it became George Routledge & Sons in 1865. In 1912 George Routledge & Sons merged with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com. | 2006 |
| Row, Peterson & Co. | The Illinois publishing firm of Row, Peterson & Co. merged with Harper & Brothers in 1962 to form Harper & Row. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com. In 2001 HarperCollins Publishers was reorganised into two divisions: General Books and Collins. | 2009 |
| Roycroft Printing Shop | The Roycroft Printing Shop was founded in East Aurora, New York, in 1895 by Elbert Hubbard and others. It became a printing and publishing firm influenced by William Morris and the Kelmscott Press. Hubbard and his wife died in the sinking of the 'Lusitania' in 1915. The firm was continued by Elbert Hubbard II, until it went bankrupt in 1938. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 401-406. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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