Thomas Osborne (1704-1767)
London bookseller who purchased the Harleian Library and hired Samuel Johnson and William
Oldys to catalogue it, resulting in the quarrel in which the lexicographer knocked down the
bibliopole with a folio.
London bookseller who purchased the Harleian Library and hired Samuel Johnson and William
Oldys to catalogue it, resulting in the quarrel in which the lexicographer knocked down the
bibliopole with a folio.