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List Verlag	List Verlag was founded in Berlin by J. A. List around 1814. The firm was controlled by the List family until World War II. It was subsequently acquired by the Axel Springer group, being part of Econ Ullstein List and then from 2000 to 2003 of Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and List was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. It is now an imprint of Ullstein Buchverlage. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de.	2008
Lockwood & Co.	The publishing firm of Lockwood & Co was established by Mark Lockwood in the early nineteenth century. On his death in the 1850s his son Crosby Lockwood took over the running of the company and changed the name of the firm to Crosby Lockwood & Co. Crosby Lockwood remained an independent firm until it was acquired by Granada Publishing in 1972. See the FOB entry for Granada Publishing, which indicates that any surviving rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation.	2006
Long and Smith	Long and Smith was a New York publishing house which went bankrupt around 1934. In 1935 many of its titles were acquired at the bankruptcy sale by Julian Messner. See the FOB entry for Julian Messner, Inc., which indicates that the firm was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the 1960s. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 235-237 and www.simonsays.com.	2008
Longman	Thomas Longman founded his publishing house in 1724. The firm remained a family business until 1970, when it was merged with Penguin Books. By the time of the death of the last family chairman, Mark Longman, in 1972, the firm was known as Pearson Longman. It remains part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known as Longman Addison Wesley, but it has now reverted to Longman. See www.pearson.com and www.longman.co.uk.	2007
Longman & Broderip	The music publishing firm of J. Longman & Co. was founded in London around 1767. The firm became Longman & Broderip around 1776 and went bankrupt in 1798. See See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and the FOB entry for Broderip & Wilkinson.	2007
Longmans, Browne and Nolan	The Irish publishing firm of Browne and Nolan was renamed Longmans, Browne and Nolan around 1969. Longmans, Browne and Nolan was incorporated into the Educational Company of Ireland (EDCO) around 1972. EDCO became a Jefferson Smurfit company and is now part of the Smurfit Kappa Group. See www.edco.ie and www.smurfitkappa.com.	2007
Loring and Mussey	The publishing firm of Loring and Mussey was founded by Percy A. Loring and J. Barrows Mussey in New York in 1933. In 1936 Loring withdrew from the firm and it continued for a year as J. Barrows Mussey before going out of business in 1937. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 213.	2008
Lothrop Publishing Company	Lothrop Publishing Company was founded as D. Lothrop and Company in Boston in 1868. In 1904 the firm went bankrupt and was purchased by the publishing firm of Lee and Shepard. See the FOB entry for Lee and Shepard and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 250-252.	2009
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard	In 1904 the publishing firm of Lee and Shepard (q.v.) purchased the bankrupt Lothrop Publishing Company and became Lothrop, Lee and Shepard. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 250-252. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard was purchased by Crown Publishers in 1943 and then by William Morrow & Company in 1968. See the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that the firm was acquired by the Hearst Corporation in 1981 and then in 1999 sold by Hearst to News Corporation, where it was incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2009
Lydia R. Bailey	The Bailey family printing and publishing firm was founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1772 and moved to Philadelphia in 1778. The firm was first named Francis Bailey, and became F. and R. Bailey in 1797. From 1808 the firm traded as Lydia R. Bailey. It went out of business in 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 33.	2009

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