Engelsk kartförläggare under början av 1700-talet. - Se MOUNT & PAGE.
Was the most important member of an Augsburg family of artists and publishers. He was the German representative of the 'Vue d'Optique' , a genre of copper engravings showing in the size of this here shown print the architectural 'wonders of the world' to people mainly during fairs. The prints were pushed into a view box and the viewers, one at a time, could look through a lens to see the prints inserted into the box by the operator, for money, of course. There were French, Italian, Spanish, publishers of Vue d'Optique prints. But the most famous and the most true to facts ones came from the Augsburg workshop of G.B. Probst. He produced ca. 400 of them, not only views of places, but also a variety of other subject matters. While most prints of this genre were loudly and heavily colored, a small series was left black and white, truly showing their artistic value beyond the fulfilment of curiosity at fairs.
Engelsk bokhandel- och förlagsfirma grundlagd i London 1724 av Thomas Longman (se denne). Bland förlagets författare under den första tiden finner vi David Hume - en senare innehavare av Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842). Under hans tid möter vi Walter Scott, Thomas Moore m.fl. Förlagets produktion spände även över kartor, men de verkar ha varit i mer begränsad skala. Under årens lopp har firman övertagit flera andra förlag. Under firmanamnet Longmans, Green & Co. driver det idag en världsomspännande verksamhet med filialer över hela det brittiska imperiet.
Dict. nat. biogr.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Kornfibla, Scorzonera humilis - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
