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Reilly and Britton Publishing Company	The Madison Book Company was founded in Chicago in 1902 by Frank K. Reilly and Sumner C. Britton. In 1904 the firm's name was changed to Reilly and Britton Publishing Company. Britton left the firm in 1916, and from 1919 William F. Lee became a full partner and the firm became Reilly and Lee Publishing Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 315-316, and see the FOB entry for Reilly and Lee, which indicates that the successor firms now belong to McGraw-Hill (www.mcgraw-hill.com).	2008
Reilly and Lee Publishing Company	Reilly and Lee Publishing Company was formed in 1919 as the successor company to Reilly and Britton (q.v.). In 1957 Reilly and Lee was acquired by the Henry Regnier Company, which became known as Contemporary Books from 1977. Contemporary Books was acquired by the Tribune Company in 1993, and in 1996 became part of NTC/Contemporary. NTC/Contemporary was acquired by McGraw-Hill in 2000 as part of its purchase of Tribune Education. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Reynal and Company	Eugene Reynal left Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1955 and established his own publishing firm in New York. (See the FOB entry for Reynal and Hitchcock for his earlier publishing career.) After Reynal's death in 1968, his firm was acquired by William Morrow & Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 318, and see the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2008
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
Richard Bentley & Son	Richard Bentley was part of the firm of Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley from 1829 for three years. He then founded the firm of Richard Bentley in 1832. In 1898 the firm of Richard Bentley & Son was purchased by Macmillan. See the FOB entry for Macmillan.	2006
Richard G. Badger and Company	The publishing firm of Richard G. Badger and Company was founded in Boston around 1896. In 1932 the firm was purchased by Bruce Humphries. See the FOB entry for Bruce Humphries, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 32.	2009
Rinehart and Company	The publishing firm of Rinehart and Company (previously Farrar & Rinehart) merged with the firms of Henry Holt and Company and John C. Winston Company in 1959-1960 to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. See the FOB entry for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicates that the firm is now part of Harcourt Education, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and 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
Robert Aitken	Robert Aitken founded his firm in Philadelphia in 1773 as a bookseller, stationer, bookbinder and publisher. Following his death in 1802, the firm was managed by his daughter Jane Aitken. The firm went out business, on account of family debts, in 1813. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 5.	2009
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

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