Their first success was the publication of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which was followed in 1841 by the issue of the first two volumes of his History of England, which after a few years had a sale of 40 000 copies. Thomas Norton Longman died on 29 August 1842, leaving his two sons, Thomas (1804–1879) and William (1813–1877), in control of the business in Paternoster Row. They issued in 1829 Lardner's Cabinet Encyclopaedia, and in 1832 McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary.
In 1814 arrangements were made with Thomas Moore for the publication of Laila Rookh, for which he was paid £ 3000 and when Archibald Constable failed in 1826, Longmans became the proprietors of the Edinburgh Review.
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This was completed in 39 volumes plus 6 volumes of plates in 1819. In 1802 appeared the first part of Rees's Cyclopædia, edited by Abraham Rees. He published the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Scott, and acted as London agent for the Edinburgh Review, which was started in 1802. About 1800 he also purchased the copyright of Southey's Joan of Arc and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, from Joseph Cottle of Bristol. In the following year, Richmal Mangnall's Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People was purchased, and went through 84 editions by 1857. In 1799, Longman purchased the copyright of Lindley Murray's English Grammar, which had an annual sale of about 50 000 copies. A document of 1823 "Grant of Land in the Concan" printed by the firm under this name shows the name change was from 1823 or earlier. In 1804, two more partners were admitted, and the former apprentice Brown became a partner in 1811 in 1824, the title of the firm was changed to 'Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green'. Of these, Thomas Norton Longman (1771–1842) succeeded to the business. 1777–1869) entered the house as an apprentice.
In 1794, he took Owen Rees as a partner in the same year, Thomas Brown (c. He greatly extended the colonial trade of the firm. Upon the death of his uncle in 1755, Longman became sole proprietor. In 1754, Longman took into partnership his nephew, Thomas Longman (1730–1797), and the title of the firm became 'T. Longman himself was one of the six booksellers, who undertook the responsibility of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1746–1755). Longman entered into partnership with his father-in-law, Osborn, who held one-sixth of the shares in Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728). Taylor's two shops in Paternoster Row, London, were known respectively as the Black Swan and the Ship, premises at that time having signs rather than numbers, and became the publishing house premises. In August 1724, he purchased the stock and household goods of William Taylor, the first publisher of Robinson Crusoe, for £ 2282 9s 6d. Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a London bookseller, and at the expiration of his apprenticeship married Osborn's daughter. Boasting over 1,200 entries, it is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language.The Longman company was founded by Thomas Longman (1699 – 18 June 1755), the son of Ezekiel Longman (died 1708), a gentleman of Bristol. New to this fully revised edition are recommended entry-level web links. It includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms. Now available in a new, fully updated and expanded edition, it offers readers increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, and schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction. The best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma. as apt to the bedside table as to the desk: Dr Baldick is a Brewer for specialized tastes” - Times Literary Supplement “This dictionary’s virtues and its plain-spokenness make it.
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