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Riker, Thorne	John C. Riker founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New York in 1832. The firm was renamed Riker, Thorne in 1849 and ceased publishing around 1857. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 391.	2009
Riverside Press	The Riverside Press was a publishing firm founded by Henry Houghton in 1852. In 1872 George Mifflin became a partner in the firm. In 1880 the Riverside Press merged with the remnants of the firms of Ticknor and Fields and Houghton, Osgood and Company to form Houghton Mifflin and Company. See www.hmco.com.	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
S. W. Tilton and Company	Stephen Willis Tilton founded the publishing firm of S. W. Tilton and Company in the 1870s, after the closure in 1874 of J. E. Tilton and Company (q.v.). Publications of S. W. Tilton and Company have been traced for the 1870s and 1880s but not later. According to the website www.tilton.org, Stephen Willis Tilton was born in 1833 and died in 1911.	2021
Scolar Press	Scolar Press was run by Dr Robin Alston from 1966 to 1973. See Dr Alston's account of the sale of Scolar Press to Bemrose at www.r-alston.co.uk/Scolarexperience.htm. The following sentence is taken from Dr Alston's website: "The imprint was acquired by Gower in Aldershot; Gower was then swallowed by Ashgate; and as far as I can tell the Scolar imprint has completely disappeared."	2007
Scripta-Technica	Scripta-Technica was founded as a publisher of scientific journals and scientific translations, especially from the Russian and the Japanese. In 1984 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	2006
Society for the Publication of American Music	The Society for the Publication of American Music (SPAM) was founded by Burnet C. Tuthill in New York in 1919. In 1969 the society was dissolved and the residue of its music stock was made over to its publisher, the Theodore Presser Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.presser.com.	2007
Swets Test International	Swets Test International was previously a division of Swets & Zeitlinger. In 2003 Swets Test International was acquired by the Harcourt Assessment division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Assessment was purchased by Pearson in 2008. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com.	2008
T. & A. D. Poyser	T. & A. D. Poyser, formerly part of Elsevier Science, is now part of the Natural History division of A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	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

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