Longman

Longman is a firm of English publishers.

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The founder of the firm, Thomas Longman (1) (1699-1755) was the son of Ezekiel Longman (d. 1708), a gentleman of Bristol. Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a London bookseller. At the expiration of his apprenticeship he married Osborn's daughter, and in August 1724 purchased the stock and household goods of William Taylor, the first publisher of Robinson Crusoe, for ?2282 9s. 6d. Taylor’s two shops were known respectively as the Black Swan and the Ship, in Paternoster Row and became the publishing house premises.

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