The literary correspondences of the Tonsons

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  • edited by Stephen Bernard.
  • Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • First edition.
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    PR1343 .L58 2015
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    Summary

    The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons is the first selected edition of the correspondences of a major publishing house in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. As such, it presents for the first time the practices of the house that published Addison, Behn, Congreve, Dryden, Pope, Prior, Steele, and Vanbrugh, and contains letters by all of these writers and many more.

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    Contents

    Calendar of letters -- The literary correspondences of the Tonsons -- Appendix : complete calendar of extant letters.

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    Description:
    xxi, 386 : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
    Published:
    Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
    ©2015
    Language:
    English
    Notes:
    Correspondence of publishers Jacob Tonson the Elder and Jacob Tonson the Younger with 18th-century literary figures such as John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, and others.
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-359) and index.
    Genre or Form:
    Correspondence
    ISBN:
    9780198700852
    0198700857
    OCLC Number:
    910885911
    Other Identifiers:
    LCCN: 2014941341
    British national bibliography: GBB512071

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