List of payments to editors of Shakespeare from Tonsons, booksellers [manuscript], ca. 1735.
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List of payments to editors of Shakespeare from Tonsons, booksellers [manuscript], ca. 1735.
Uniform title
Gentleman's magazine (London, England)
Description
2 leaves.
Corporate author
J. and R. Tonson.
Associated name
Draper, Somerset.
Scope and content
In the autograph of Somerset Draper, a servant to Tonson: payments to Rowe, Hughes, Fenton, Gay, Whately, and Theobald. In a later hand, possibly ca. 1767, are recorded payments to Warburton, Capell, and Johnson. Also a note in the same hand of the amount paid for the copyright of Johnson's ed. at the Tonson sale, 1767.
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Printed in The gentleman's magazine, vol. LVII, p. 76.
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Accounts.
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S.a.163