Record Number: 3453

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any note we can treat of': 'bio. Prin & Shepherd'.

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unknown

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Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Anon

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Unknown

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Unknown

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Unknown/NA

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Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Peter Cunningham

Title:

Lives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonson

Genre:

Biography, Publishing history

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Pamphlet

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3453

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Peter Cunningham

Title:

Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers

Location:

National Library of Scotland

Call No:

John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E)

Page/Folio:

1

Citation:

Peter Cunningham, Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers National Library of Scotland, p. John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E), p. 1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=3453, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

The NLS was, at the time of writing, in the process of recataloguing the John Murray archive. MS call numbers should therefore be carefully checked at source. This pamphlet is in a folder in the John Murray Archive, of Cunningham's working notes.