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TONSON , the name of a See also:

family of See also:London booksellers and publishers. See also:Richard and See also:Jacob Tonson (c. 1656–1736), sons of a London See also:barber-surgeon, started in 1676 and 1677 independently as booksellers and publishers in London. In 1679 Jacob, the better known of the two, bought and published See also:Dryden's See also:Troilus and Cressida, and from that See also:time was closely associated with Dryden, and published most of his See also:works. He published the See also:Miscellany Poems (1684–1708) under Dryden's editorship, the collection being known indifferently as Dryden's or Tonson's Miscellany, and also Dryden's See also:translation of See also:Virgil (1697). Serious disagreements over the See also:price paid, however, arose between poet and publisher, and in his See also:Faction Displayed (1705) Dryden described Tonson as having " two See also:left legs, and Judas-coloured See also:hair." Subsequently the relations between the two men inlproved. The See also:brothers jointly published Dryden's See also:Spanish See also:Friar (1683). Jacob Tonson also published See also:Congreve's See also:Double Dealer, See also:Sir See also:John See also:Vanbrugh's The Faithful Friend and The Confederacy, and the pastorals of See also:Pope, thus justifying Wycherly's description of him as "See also:gentleman See also:usher to the See also:Muses." He bought also the valuable rights of See also:Paradise Lost, See also:half in 1683 and half in 1690. This was his first profitable venture in See also:poetry. In 1712 he became See also:joint publisher with See also:Samuel Buckley of the Spectator, and in the following See also:year published See also:Addison's See also:Cato. He was the See also:original secretary and a prominent member of the See also:Kit-See also:Cat See also:Club. About 1720 he gave up business and retired to See also:Herefordshire, where he died on the and of See also:April 1736.

His business was carried on by his See also:

nephew, Jacob Tonson, jun. (d. 1735), and subsequently by his See also:grand-nephew, also Jacob (d. 1767).

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