Visitors to the National Portrait Gallery will sooner or later encounter Sir Godfrey Kneller's epic portrait sequence representing members of the Kit-Cat Club. Among more than 40 likenesses (all of ...

The Kit-Cat Club, founded in the late 17th century, was the brainchild of the publishing magnate Jacob Tonson, who decided to hold regular, boozy dinners for "Poetical young Sprigs" of his ...

The Kit-Cat Club by Ophelia Field Harper, HK$142 It was an unconventional deal to say the least. In the late 1690s Jacob Tonson, perhaps Britain's first professional publisher, cooked up an ...

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