Jacob Tonson

(1655-1736)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736 DNB: Tonson, Jacob, the elder (1655/6-1736), bookseller LBT ID: JaTonso1736 VIAF ID: 330654 LOC ID: n50013721	B/BAP: 1655-11-12 DIED: 1736-03-18
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London bookseller and member of the Kit-Kat Club; the elder Tonson published Dryden; his son, also Jacob Tonson (1682-1735), published Pope.
REFERENCES TO Jacob Tonson: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 August 1800 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [16 April 1815] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 11 April 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Verse 1: p. 171a Lord Byron to John Murray, 21 February 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Life of Byron: 1818 Verse 1: p. 171a Life of Byron: 1820 “Byron’s Memoirs” in Monthly Magazine NS XI (February 1831) 145-59 Verse 2: p. 152a p. 152a [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 53 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 60 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XVII Found 1: ¶ 39 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter VI Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 11 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter X. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Letters: 1815