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‘Your Most Affectionate Friend and Faithful Servant, Lau. Echard’: Laurence Echard and the Tonsons.

The article discusses English Whig historian Laurence Echard (bap. 1672-1730) and his correspondence with his publishers, the Tonsons, both men, uncle and nephew, named Jacob. Echard was notable for writing the first single-author histories of England in the 18th century "The history of England from...

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Published in:Notes & Queries Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 515 - 520
Main Author: Bernard, Stephen
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2010
Subjects:
Author-publisher relations
Tonson, Jacob
Echard, Laurence
Letters
Letter writing
British authors
Historians
History of publishing
British history, 1789-1820
United Kingdom
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