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A historic British publishing house rather than a single writer, this name appears on many older title pages. The firm grew from an eighteenth-century London bookseller into one of the best-known names in English-language publishing.
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Founded in London in 1724 by Thomas Longman, the business began when he bought the publishing concern of William Taylor, the publisher associated with Robinson Crusoe. Over time it stayed closely tied to the Longman family and expanded steadily in the British book trade.
The wording "Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans" refers to one of the firm's nineteenth-century partnership names, which is why it is sometimes listed like an author in old catalogs and scans even though it was actually the publisher. Variations of the name appeared across the century as partners changed.
Later known as Longmans, Green & Co. and then simply Longman, the company became especially influential in educational and reference publishing. The Longman name continued into the modern era under Pearson, so readers may recognize it from dictionaries, textbooks, and classic editions as much as from Victorian title pages.