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pointed his great nephew, Jacob Tonson, the eldest son of the former Jacob, his executor and residuary legatee.*
The following epitaph, written by a young gentleman of Eton, is copied from the Gentle- man't Mayazine for 1736, vol. vi. p. 106.
" vita vdumine pcncto,
Hie flois Jacobi Tonson,
IttrpoUtt aockvum principiD :
gni Telnt otntetriz Muaiam
htlMeem edidU
felices ingenii putos.
Lngete, Scrtptorum Chonu,
et frangite calamos t
Ule Tester margme ertuuM deteiur j
sed luec po^rema Inscriptio
huic prinuB moriU pagiiue,
imprimatur^
jlBpreto tepulchri oommlssiu
ipse editor careat tiiuto :
hlc jacet Bibtiopota,
folio vite diUpeo,
expectaas nooam editionem
auetiortm et emaxtafiorem."
T«AN8LATION. •
The Tolome of bis life complete Here, reader, with the end jroa meet Of Jacob Tonaon, 'monf bis trade Best gilt, and best letter'd made j Who, like a midwife, to the mnse. If called apon, could scarce refuse (When sbe the press bad nndergone By nature or entreaty won) DeliTering her to end her pains Of the chance oflfaprlng of her brains : In this, like a bawd midwife found. That soon as the inftnt he bad bound. Not keeplnK lady moae's fcme. He pnbllshea to the world her shame. For which sbe oft this fate did meet. Eternal pennance in a sheet; Owning herself by every wcffd A lewd dull jilt upon record.
Yet monm bis death, ye writers all. Ye vulgar great and vulgar small; Let some in periods long compose A grave oratton m grave prose, While the poetic tuneful train In after degy complain; Or if their nmins turn to lyric. Sing old friend Jacob's panegyric : To him for proof their works were brought He carefblly revised each thought : With criMe death but liaving strife. Death blotted out his line of life. And he who many a scribbling elf Abridged, is now abridged himself. Wben heaven renewed the original text, TwBs with erratat few perplext I Pleased with the copy, twas collated And to a better life translated.
But let to life this supplement Be printed on the monument. Lest the first page of death should be, Great editor, a blank to thee } * And thou, who many titles gave. Should want a title for this grave.
" Stay, passenger, and dr^ a tear. Here lies a noted bookseller : This marble index here is placed To tell that when be found defaced His book of lifb, he died with grief) Yet he by true and genuine bdief A new edition may expect, Far more enlarged and more oontect**
1735. RoherU Stephani Thetaurtu Littgute Latirut, in four volumes folio, much augmented and amended, by the Rev. Edmund Law; John Taylor, MA.; Rev. Thomas Johnson, M.A.;
- Jacob Tonson was succeeded as stationer to the prince
of Wales, by Mr. Samnei Gibbons.
and Sandys Hutchinson, M.A . London, printed for Samuel Harding, bookseller, at the Bible and Anchor, on the Pavement, St. Martin's-lane.
1735, Nov. 26. John Gbay, bookseller, gave 100 guineas for the uopyright of the History of George Barnwell, to Mr. Lillo,* the author. Mr. Gray became a dissenting minister, and after- wards complying with the terms of admission into the church of England, rector of Ripon, in Yorkshire. In conjunction with Andrew Reed, he abridged the Philosophical Transactiotu from 1720 to 1732, in two vols. 4to. na*?. He also published the Elmerick of Lillo; and, at the dving request of the author, dedicated it to Frederickprince of Wales.
1735. The BibU in the Lithuanian la^;uage, was printed at Karalanska, a town of Russia, seated on the Tunguska river. A copy is in the royal library of Copenhagen. — Cotton.
1735. Valleyre, a printer, in France, made an attempt to cast plates of metal, for printing calenders; it is a rude essay at stereotype print- ing, and M. Camus has given an impression of one of his plates, containing^tbe calender for March and April, and supposes it to be of this date.
1735, Nov. 27. DM, Robert Andrews, aged eighty years, a letter-founder in Charterhouse- street, London. He was a member of the court of assistants in the stationers' company. Mr. Sil- vester Andrews, his son, carried on the business of letter-founding at Oxford. In 1733, Thomas James purchased both their foundries.
1735. The Prompter.
1735, March 13. The Old Whig; or. Con. sistent Protestant, No. 1. A great portion of this work was written by Dr. Chandler,f a learned dissenting minister, who was zealously attached to the person and character of George II.
1735. London and Dublin Magazine; or, the Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer. London, printed, and Dublin reprinted, for George Faulk- ner, for 1735. This was a piratical reimpression or Dublin edition of the London Magaztne.
1736, Feb. 3. Died, Besnard Lintot, a celebrated bookseller of London. BamabyJ (Bernard) Lintott, son of John Lintott, late of Horsham, a Sussex yeoman, was bound appren- tice, at stationers' hsJl, to Thomas Lingard, De-
- George Lillo was born at London, FM>. 4, 1093. He
carried on the business of a jeweller many years with great reputation. He well knew how to tondi the heart; and his pieces, which are subservient to the cause of virtue, are George Bamwett, Fatal CuriotUf, and Arim of Fevertham. He died Sept. 3, 1739.
t Samuel Chandler was born at Hungerfbrd, In Berk- shire, in IIS9S, and was educated for the ministry amongst the dissenters. In I7I< he was chosen minister of the congregation at Peckham, and the income being slender, he commenced business as a bookseller in the Poultry, which he however relinquished upon his being appointed minister of the Old Jewry meeting. He was compllinented by the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow with the diploma of D. D., and was elected a member of the royal and antiquarian societies. Dr. Chandler died May 3, 17M, and was buried in Bunhill Fields. His sermons have been printed in four volumes, Svo.
t This was the name under which he was bound appren- tice g but he soon dropped Bamaby , and, alter some years, wrote Lintot with a single ( at the end.
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