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| Lloyd-Luke | Lloyd-Luke (publisher of medical books) was purchased by Edward Arnold in June 1985. Edward Arnold was purchased by Hodder & Stoughton in March 1987. Hodder & Stoughton is now part of the Hachette group. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk. | 2008 |
| LLP Professional Publications | Publications with the imprint LLP Professional began to appear in the 1980s. The firm was previously known as Lloyds of London Press. The LLP Group plc was formed in 1995 and was merged with IBC Group in 1998 to form Informa (now T&F Informa). LLP Professional is now an imprint of Informa Law. See www.informalaw.com. | 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 |
| Longstreet Press | Longstreet Press was founded by Chuck Perry in 1988, and purchased by Scott Bard in 1999. In 2006 the firm filed for bankruptcy. See 'Publishers weekly', 18 September 2006. | 2008 |
| 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 |
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