Remains of Latton Priory Essex...Pub 1818 by Longman & co...Drawn & Engraved by J Greig for the Excursions through Essex
Cartographer : - Longman & Co.
- Date: - 1818
- Size: - 8 1/2in x 5in (215mm x 130mm)
- Ref#: - 22474
- Condition: - (A+) Fine Condition
Description:
This original copper-plate engraved antique print of the remains of Latton Priory, outside the Essex town of Harlow, England was drawn & engraved by John Greig in 1818 - dated - and published by Longman & co in the 1819 edition of Excursions in the county of Essex : comprising a brief historical and topographical delineation of every town and village.....
General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, green, blue, pink
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 8 1/2in x 5in (215mm x 130mm)
Plate size: - 6in x 4in (150mm x 100mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None
Latton Priory was a small priory in Essex, England. Its site is about 1km south of the outskirts of the modern town of Harlow.
The priory was founded before 1292 by an ancestor of Thomas Shaa as a community of Augustinian Canons Regular and was constructed on a moated site. The church was rebuilt in the 14th century and together with the dormitory, refectory and cellarers range formed a square surrounding the cloisters.
The site was abandoned in 1534 at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII. The property was granted to Sir Henry Parker in 1536 but by 1556 had been united with the Latton Hall estate. In 1562 it became part of the Mark Hall estate, who sold it to a tenant after the Second World War.
The Longman company was founded by Thomas Longman (1699 – 1755), the son of Ezekiel Longman (died 1708), a gentleman of Bristol. Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a London bookseller, and at the expiration of his apprenticeship married Osborns daughter. In August 1724, he purchased the stock and household goods of William Taylor, the first publisher of Robinson Crusoe, for £2282 9s 6d. Taylors two shops in Paternoster Row, London, were known respectively as the Black Swan and the Ship, premises at that time having signs rather than numbers, and became the publishing house premises.
Longman entered into partnership with his father-in-law, Osborn, who held one-sixth of the shares in Ephraim Chambers\\\'s Cyclopaedia (1728). Longman himself was one of the six booksellers who undertook the responsibility of Samuel Johnsons Dictionary (1746–55).
In 1754, Longman took into partnership his nephew, Thomas Longman (1730–1797), and the title of the firm became T. and T. Longman. Upon the death of his uncle in 1755, Longman became sole proprietor. He greatly extended the colonial trade of the firm. In 1794 he took Owen Rees as a partner; in the same year, Thomas Brown (c. 1777–1869) entered the house as an apprentice.
Longman had three sons. Of these, Thomas Norton Longman (1771–1842) succeeded to the business. In 1804 two more partners were admitted, and the former apprentice Brown became a partner in 1811; in 1824 the title of the firm was changed to Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.
In 1799 Longman purchased the copyright of Lindley Murrays English Grammar, which had an annual sale of about 50,000 copies. In the following year Richmal Mangnall\\\'s Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People was purchased, and went through 84 editions by 1857. About 1800 he also purchased the copyright of Southey\\\'s Joan of Arc and Wordsworth\\\'s Lyrical Ballads, from Joseph Cottle of Bristol. He published the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Scott, and acted as London agent for the Edinburgh Review, which was started in 1802. In 1802 appeared the first part of Rees Cyclopædia, edited by Abraham Rees. This was completed in 39 volumes plus 6 volumes of plates in 1819.
In 1814 arrangements were made with Thomas Moore for the publication of Laila Rookh, for which he was paid £3000; and when Archibald Constable failed in 1826, Longmans became the proprietors of the Edinburgh Review. They issued in 1829 Lardner\\\'s Cabinet Encyclopaedia, and in 1832 McCullochs Commercial Dictionary.
Thomas Norton Longman died on 29 August 1842, leaving his two sons, Thomas (1804–1879) and William (1813–1877), in control of the business in Paternoster Row. Their first success was the publication of Macaulays Lays of Ancient Rome, which was followed in 1841 by the issue of the first two volumes of his History of England, which after a few years had a sale of 40,000 copies.
The two brothers were well known for their literary talent. 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 (1869) and a work on the History of the Life and Times of Edward III (1873). In 1863 the firm took over the business of John William Parker, and with it Frasers Magazine, and the publication of the works of John Stuart Mill and J. A. Froude; while in 1890 they incorporated with their own all the publications of the old firm of Rivington, established in 1711. The family control of the firm (later Longmans, Green & Co.) was continued by Thomas Norton Longman, son of Thomas Longman.
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