John Long Ltd

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John Long Ltd was a publishing firm [1] based in London [2] and founded by John Long who died on 16 September 1935. [3] [4] John Long Ltd. had a long association with Hutchinson and was eventually incorporated, by the 1960s it had become an imprint of Hutchinson and was no longer in use after the year 1979. [1]

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