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- 18th c. (Creation)
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1 volume (35 x 25 cm), containing 39 leaves and 1 loose sheet. Folios 1, 3, 4, 30, 33, and 34 have documents pasted to them. Folios 2, 5–29, 31, 32, and 35–9 are larger documents, mounted on stubs.
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Inside the back cover is the binder’s label of Leightons, 40 Brewer Street. The armorial bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe, is pasted inside the volume and his heraldic ‘garb’ is stamped on the front cover.
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Scope and content
On the spine is stamped: ‘Literary Assignments of Jacob Tonson’.
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Foliated 1–39, with a loose sheet inserted at the back.
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- English
Script of material
- Latin
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In the descriptions of the contents three members of the Tonson family with the same name have sometimes been distinguished as follows: Jacob Tonson I (1655/6–1736); Jacob Tonson II (1682–1735), and Jacob Tonson III (1714–1767).