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1709 in poetry
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Jonathan Swift painted this year or in 1710, by Charles Jervas
Jonathan Swift painted this year or in 1710, by Charles Jervas
Samuel Johnson's birthplace in Market Square, Lichfield
Samuel Johnson's birthplace in Market Square, Lichfield
Jacob Tonson
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Jacob Tonson, sometimes referred to as Jacob Tonson the Elder, was an eighteenth-century English bookseller and publisher.
1709 in poetry
…Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part (usually known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies), sixth in a series of anthologies published by Jacob Tonson from 1684 to this year The 752-page volume, printed on thin paper without book covers (which buyers could arrange to get), the dimensions of which were…
Portrait of Jacob Tonson by Godfrey Kneller, 1717
Portrait of Jacob Tonson by Godfrey Kneller, 1717
Jacob Tonson took into partnership his nephew (pictured), also named Jacob Tonson and sometimes referred to as Tonson Junior.
Jacob Tonson took into partnership his nephew (pictured), also named Jacob Tonson and sometimes referred to as Tonson Junior.
The title page of a 1727 English translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, published by Tonson
The title page of a 1727 English translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, published by Tonson
The title page of volume 2 of Thornhagh Gurdon's A History of the High Court of Parliament (1st ed., 1731), which was printed for "J. Tonson at Shakes
The title page of volume 2 of Thornhagh Gurdon's A History of the High Court of Parliament (1st ed., 1731), which was printed for "J. Tonson at Shakespear's Head in the Strand"