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Brunner-Routledge	Brunner-Routledge is an imprint of Routledge Mental Health, which in turn is part of the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.brunner-routledge.com, www.brunner-routledge.co.uk and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2009
CRC Press	CRC Press was founded as the Chemical Rubber Company, and published its first 'Rubber handbook' in 1913. This is now the 'CRC handbook of chemistry and physics' (84th edition). In 2003 CRC Press was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group from Information Holdings. See www.crcpress.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Curzon Press	The Curzon Press was founded in 1970 as a specialist African, Asian and Middle East publisher. The firm was bought by Taylor & Francis in 2001 and became known as RoutledgeCurzon or Routledge-Curzon. Routledge-Curzon now forms part of Routledge Asian and Middle East Studies. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
D. F. Robinson and Company	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Editions Russes de Musique	Editions Russes de Musique was founded by Sergei and Natalya Koussevitzky in 1909. In 1947 the catalogue of Editions Russes de Musique was purchased by Boosey & Hawkes. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.boosey.com.	2008
Farrar & Rinehart	The publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart was founded by John Farrar, Stanley Rinehart and Frederick Rinehart in 1929. In 1946 John Farrar left to found a new company (see the FOB entry for Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Farrar & Rinehart was renamed Rinehart. See the FOB entries for Rinehart and Company and Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicate that the firm is now part of the Holt McDougal division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
George Routledge & Sons	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
Grant Richards	Grant Richards founded his first publishing firm in 1897. Following bankruptcy proceedings, its assets were sold in 1905. Richards subsequently resumed publishing, but there were further bankruptcy proceedings in 1926, after which the firm (renamed Richards Press) passed out of Grant Richards' ownership. Richards Press was later bought first by Martin Secker, then by John Baker, and finally by A. & C. Black. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black.	2008
Green Light Readers	Green Light Readers was established as a children's imprint of Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. From 2007 Green Light Readers is an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books, within Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtbooks.com.	2008
Harper & Row	Harper & Row was founded in 1962 by the merger of the firms of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Co. Both the predecessor firms have their own entry in FOB. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation in 1987 and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com.	2006

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