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.

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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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