Search
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… by fire (54, 60, 64). William Churchill and Jacob Tonson were then appointed stationers; and there-with the …
Old and New London
… of the last century, had not ceased to be what those of Tonson, in the Strand, and Dodsley, in Pall Mall, had beenthe …
Old and New London
… editor of The Sun. This gentleman, author of "Monsieur Tonson," &c., was a most inveterate and reckless punster, and …
London Inhabitants Outside the Walls, 1695
… w; Mary, d; Elizabeth, d, 107C.16 TONGE: Elizabeth, 109.65 TONSON: Jacob, bach, 50 p.a.; TOOGOOD: ~, wid; Hester, d, …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… of Dunkettle, co. Cork,licence to take surname and arms of Tonson. [A letter from the Lord Lieut. of Ireland, enclosing …
Survey of London
… the Haymarket. 6 On 15 June 1703 Vanbrugh wrote to Jacob Tonson, the secretary of the Kit-Cat Club: 'I have finished … lasted until 1792. A letter written by Vanbrugh to Jacob Tonson on 29 November 1719 suggests that he welcomed the end …
Old and New London
… the prologue, which was spoken by Garrick himself, and Tonson was among the contributors. With this addition to …
Old and New London
… in Ogilby and Morgan's Twenty-Sheet Plan of London) JACOB TONSON. ( See page 79.) "This place," says Pennant, "was one … with the Strand, was the friend of Pope, old Jacob Tonson, of whom we give a portrait on page 73, and of whom we … by part of Somerset House, was the book-shop of Jacob Tonson, the friend and publisher of Pope, &c. Hither he …
Old and New London
… on the pledge of the embryos of his own brain. Jacob Tonson was his usual resource on these occasions. To him, … will be glad to hear that a second application to Jacob Tonson enabled him to satisfy the parish demands." At the … if the request was granted, to make the shop, as old Jacob Tonson's shop once was, the rendezvous of the first people in …
Old and New London
… and opened fruitless negotiations with Dodsley and Tonson. "He took," says Mr. Forster, "rooms on the then …