In a few months John Osborn entered into partnership with his former apprentice, and they traded as 'J. the business of John Taylor, the first publisher of ' Robinson Crusoe', a bookseller in Paternoster Row, at the sign of the Ship and Black Swan, on the site of which, and of other houses then adjoining it, are the premises now occupied by the firm of Longmans. In 1724, at the close of his apprenticeship, he bought for 2,282 l. When he was seventeen his guardians apprenticed him for seven years to John Osborn, a prosperousīookseller in Lombard Street, London, afterwards master of the Stationers' Company, whose daughter he married. At the age of nine he lost his father, Ezekiel, who is described as 'gentleman,' and from whom and from his own mother he appears to have inherited a considerable amount of property. LONGMAN, THOMAS (1699–1756), founder of the publishing house of Longman, was born in 1699 at Bristol, where his great-grandfather and grandfather had thriven in the soap trade.
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