Parks, Stephen Alan

Stephen Parks was the Curator of the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library from 1972-2004. Parks wrote John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of his Publications (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1976).

John Dunton (1659-1732) was a London bookseller during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Notable writings by Dunton included the Athenian Gazette (1691-1697), and his Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London (1705).

From the description of Stephen Parks research collection on John Dunton, 1962-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702173922

Stephen Parks was the Curator of the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library from 1972-2004. Parks authenticated a Cotton manuscript, "Contentation," in the paper "Charles Cotton and the Derby Manuscript," published in Stephen Parks and P.J. Croft, Literary Autographs (University of California, Los Angeles: William Clark Memorial Library, 1983).

Charles Cotton (1630-1687) was an English poet and translator, best known for writing the second part of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler.

From the description of Stephen Parks research collection on Charles Cotton, 1962-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702173918