Mastering the Art of Understating Your Wealth
Thomas Keymer: The Tonsons, 5 May 2016
The Literary Correspondences of the Tonsons
edited by Stephen Bernard.
Oxford, 386 pp., £95, March 2015,978 0 19 870085 2 Show More
edited by Stephen Bernard.
Oxford, 386 pp., £95, March 2015,
“... Godfrey Kneller’s Kit Cat Club portraits, clockwise from top left: Jacob Tonson (1717); Robert Walpole (c.1712); William Congreve (1709); Joseph Addison (c.1710). Around this time Tonson founded the Kit-Cat Club, whimsically named after a fancy pastry merchant called Christopher Cat, but in practice the engine-room of Whig politics during the ... ”