Longman, known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.
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Longman, known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.
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Since 1968, Longman has been used primarily as an imprint by Pearson's Schools business.
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Longman entered into partnership with his father-in-law, Osborn, who held one-sixth of the shares in Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia.
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Longman himself was one of the six booksellers, who undertook the responsibility of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary.
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In 1754, Longman took into partnership his nephew, Thomas Longman, and the title of the firm became 'T.
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In 1799, Longman purchased the copyright of Lindley Murray's English Grammar, which had an annual sale of about 50 copies.
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Longman published the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Scott, and acted as London agent for the Edinburgh Review, which was started in 1802.
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Thomas Longman edited a beautifully illustrated edition of the New Testament, and William Longman was the author of several important books, among them a History of the Three Cathedrals dedicated to St Paul and a work on the History of the Life and Times of Edward III (1873).
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Longman later inherited the shares of W E Green and became a shareholder in 1918.
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Longman survived this crisis, however, and became a public company in 1948.
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Longman was acquired by the global publisher Pearson, owner of Penguin and The Financial Times, in 1968.
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Longman continued to exist as an imprint of Pearson, under the name 'Pearson Longman'.
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Pearson Longman specialized in English, including English as a second or foreign language, history, economics, philosophy, political science, and religion.
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