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R. G. Berford Company	R. G. Berford Company was a publishing firm founded in Phildelphia around 1840. There was also an occasional New York office. The firm went out of business around 1844. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 51.	2009
Rainbird Publishing Group	Rainbird was bought by Penguin UK in March 1985. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Regnery Publishing	Regnery Publishing was founded as a new firm in 1977 by Henry Regnery, shortly after he had sold the Henry Regnery Company (q.v.). The new firm was briefly known as Regnery Gateway. In 1993 the firm was acquired by Eagle Publishing. See www.regnery.com/eagle.html.	2008
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
Rough Guides	The travel publishing firm of Rough Guides was founded by Mark Ellingham and others in 1981. In 2002 the firm was acquired by Pearson and brought under the Penguin division. See www.roughguides.com and www.pearson.com.	2008
Rudd and Carleton	The publishing firm of Rudd and Carleton was founded in New York in 1857 as the successor firm to Livermore and Rudd. In 1857 Edward Livermore retired from the firm and its owners became Edward P. Rudd, his father George Rudd and George Washington Carleton. In 1861 both the Rudds retired, and the firm continued as G. W. Carleton. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 398, and see the FOB entry for G. W. Carleton.	2009
Silver Burdett Company	Silver Burdett Company was founded (as Silver & Co.) in the 1880s as an education publishing house. The firm was purchased in 1985-86 by Simon & Schuster. In 1998 all the Simon & Schuster educational businesses, including Silver Burdett Company, were sold to Pearson, which formed a new company called Pearson Education. The name of Silver Burdett is preserved in the Pearson imprint of Silver Burdett Ginn. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Silver Burdett Ginn Religion	See the FOB entry for Silver Burdett Company for the history of Silver Burdett Ginn. In 2007 Silver Burdett Ginn Religion was separated from the rest of Silver Burdett Ginn and sold by Pearson Education to the RCL Benziger division of CFM Religion Publishing Group. See 'Publishers weekly', 7 September 2007, and www.rclweb.com.	2008
The Critic	The Critic was a New York-based magazine of literary criticism published beginning in 1881. In 1884 the magazine merged with Good Literature to become The Critic and Good Literature and started a new series. The title reverted to The Critic that same year. In 1906, the magazine was absorbed into a new incarnation of Putnam's Monthly, which was titled Putnam's Monthly and The Critic for its initial issues. A small collection of responses from 26 American authors to the question “Has America Produced a Poet?” solicited by The Critic’s editors is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
The Golden Cockerel Press	The Golden Cockerel Press, founded by Harold (Hal) Midgley Taylor in 1920, began as a cooperative private press venture, publishing a literary review, The Voices, and two literary titles before being put up for sale in 1924. Purchase of the press that year by wood engraver Robert Gibbings marked the start of a more productive period, resulting in the publication of some 71 classic and contemporary titles between 1924 and 1933. That year, Christopher Sandford took over the business at which point the press ceased to be private with production moved to Chiswick Press. By the time ownership again changed hands in 1959, 120 additional titles had appeared. Between 1959 and 1961 American publisher Thomas Yosseloff completed four more titles before closing the Golden Cockerel imprint for good. A collection of correspondence and production materials documenting the operation under the ownership of Robert Gibbings and Christopher Sandford is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025

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