Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 166,839 pages of information and 246,656 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1724 25-year-old Thomas Longman bought the publisher's and bookseller's business of John Taylor in Paternoster Row; the sign that hung over the shop was that of a ship in full sail. This was the origin of the oldest commercial publisher in the English language.
Later became Longmans, Green and Co
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