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ANDREW See also: British publisher, was See also: born in 1707
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About 1729 he started business as a bookseller and publisher in the Strand, See also: London
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His own See also: judgment in See also: literary matters was small, but he collected an excellent staff of literary advisers, and did not hesitate to pay what at the See also: time were considered large prices for See also: good material
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" I respect See also: Millar, See also: sir," said Dr See also: Johnson in 1755, " he has raised the price of literature." He paid
See also: Thomson £105 for The Seasons, and See also: Fielding a See also: total sum of £700 for Tom See also: Jones and £i000 for Amelia
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He was one of the
See also: syndicate of booksellers who financed Johnson's See also: Dictionary, and on him the See also: work of seeing that See also: book through the See also: press mainly See also: fell
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He also published the histories of See also: Robertson and Hume
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He died at his See also: villa at See also: Kew See also: Green, near London, on the 8th of See also: June 1768
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