‘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...
| Publicado en: | Notes & Queries Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 515 - 520 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2010
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