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'Jacob Tonson, founder of the Kit-Cat Club', c1730, (1911). Jacob Tonson, sometimes referred to as Jacob Tonson the elder (1655-1736) was an eighteenth-century English bookseller and publisher. The Kit-Cat Club was an early 18th-century English club in London with strong political and literary associations, committed to the furtherance of Whig objectives. From The Connoisseur Vol XXXI. [Otto Limited, London, 1911]