Jacob Tonson
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Jacob Tonson, sometimes referred to as Jacob Tonson the Elder, was an eighteenth-century English bookseller and publisher.
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.
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 Shakespear's Head in the Strand"
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he fo
Jacob Tonson
…to bring out pieces by Dryden, and on 6 October 1691 paid thirty guineas for all the author's rights in the printing of the tragedy of Cleomenes. Joseph Addison's Poem to his Majesty was published by Tonson in 1695, and there was some correspondence respecting a proposed joint translation of Herodotus by Boyle…
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1703–1712
Joseph Addison: engraving after the Kneller portrait
The actor John Kemble, in the role of Cato, revived at Covent Garden in 1816, drawn by George Cruikshank
Addison in 1719, the year he died