Charles Knight:

Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century

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Thomas Osborne (1704-1767)

London bookseller who purchased the Harleian Library and hired Samuel Johnson and William Oldys to catalogue it, resulting in the quarrel in which the lexicographer knocked down the bibliopole with a folio. London bookseller who purchased the Harleian Library and hired Samuel Johnson and William Oldys to catalogue it, resulting in the quarrel in which the lexicographer knocked down the bibliopole with a folio.