Thomas Osborne

(1704-1767)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Osborne, Thomas, d. 1767 DNB: Osborne, Thomas (bap. 1704?, d. 1767), bookseller LBT ID: ThOsbor1767 VIAF ID: 79080808 LOC ID: n82080180	B/BAP: 1704-04-13 DIED: 1767-08-21
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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.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Osborne: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 1