This article is about the eighteenth century bookseller. For the British novelist who reviewed books under this name, see Arnold Bennett.
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Jacob Tonson
Portrait of Jacob Tonson by Godfrey Kneller, 1717
Born
12 November 1655
Died
17 March 1735/6
Nationality
English
Occupation(s)
Bookseller and publisher
Parent
Jacob Tonson
Jacob Tonson, sometimes referred to as Jacob Tonson the Elder (1655–1736), was an eighteenth-century English bookseller and publisher.
Tonson published editions of John Dryden and John Milton, and is best known for having obtained a copyright on the plays of William Shakespeare by buying up the rights of the heirs of the publisher of the Fourth Folio after the Statute of Anne went into effect. He was also the founder of the famous Kit-Cat Club. His nephew, Jacob Tonson the Younger (1682–1735), was his business partner. The business was continued by the younger Tonson's son, Jacob Tonson (1714–1767).
JacobTonson, sometimes referred to as JacobTonson the Elder (1655–1736), was an eighteenth-century English bookseller and publisher. Tonson published...
Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis, 3rd ed., Vol. I, pp. 163–166. JacobTonson (London), 1709. Hosted at Google Books. Accessed 30 May 2014. Rhoades...
English translation was an important source-material for Shakespeare. JacobTonson printed several editions of the Lives in English in the late 17th century...
publishing it the following year, 1682. According to the bookseller JacobTonson, Tate was aided by Dryden's advice and editorial direction. Dryden also...
written in this period. He worked for JacobTonson the bookseller, and his Pastorals opened the sixth volume of Tonson's Miscellanies (1709), which also contained...
Charles (1695). An Essay upon Ways and Means of Supplying the War. London: JacobTonson. p. 77.; quoted in "Home Counties". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed...
"Georgics, Bk II", in Dryden, John (ed.), The Works of Virgil, London: JacobTonson. Webster, John (1613), The Duchess of Malfi, archived from the original...
states that Holmes was employed by the publisher of the first edition, JacobTonson, from p. 112 of Vol. 1, up to the end of Vol. 12 only; and that the subsequent...
1709, Pope's Pastorals was published in the sixth part of bookseller JacobTonson's Poetical Miscellanies. This earned Pope instant fame and was followed...
Studios in the 1750s. He was a brother of bookseller and publisher JacobTonson. "TONSON, Richard (d.1772), of Water Oakley, nr. Windsor, Berks. | History...
49–111. Wallace, James. An Account of the Islands of Orkney. London: JacobTonson, 1700. For a list of words relating to Norn language, see the Norn language...
literature (for instance, Irish or France). Now crowds to Founder Bocaj [JacobTonson] did resort And for his Favour humbly made their Court. The little Wits...
the free dictionary. Ovid's Epistles, Preface by John Dryden, London: JacobTonson, 1681, cited in Baker, Malmkjær, p. 153 Andrew Dousa Hepburn, Manual...
Dryden Language English Genre Religious poem, beast fable Publisher JacobTonson Publication date 1687 Publication place England Media type Print (hardback)...
again, for a debt of £40, in February 1758. The debt was soon repaid by JacobTonson, who had contracted Johnson to publish Shakespeare, and this encouraged...
Disadvantages of Animal and Vegetable Diet, are Explain'd (3rd ed.). London: JacobTonson. p. 64. An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments. Stromberg, J. (3...
and tradition? ... As good a claimant as any is the London bookseller JacobTonson." In a very different field, his memoir about the sustained serial, clerical...
JSTOR 41556313. Dryden, John (1695). "Preface". The Truth Found Too Late. London: JacobTonson. p. 15. OCLC 759693493. Apfelbaum, Roger (2004). Shakespeare's Troilus...
D'Urfey, Tom. Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy. 6 vol. London: JacobTonson, 1719–1720. "The Contemplator's Short Biography of Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723)"...
Mequinez, the residence of the present emperor of Fez and Morocco. London: JacobTonson. OCLC 64409967. Wharton, Edith (1920). In Morocco. New York: C. Scribner's...
Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, translated by the most eminent hands (London: JacobTonson, 1717) Volume II, p. 201. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3.14.8; in...
D'Urfey, Tom. Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy. 6 vol. London: JacobTonson, 1719–1720. "The Contemplator's Short Biography of Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723)"...
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