Account against Hugh Gaine, 1775-1776.

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Account against Hugh Gaine, 1775-1776.

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Autograph document signed; bill made out by Nutter to Gaine detailing the sets of Chesterfield letters he bound during 1775-1776. Gaine appears to have paid only intermittently and the invoice is endorsed on 1790 Feb. 20 at the bottom: "Note: the above acccount was never settled by Mr. Gaine."

1 item (1 p.) ; 32 cm.

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Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, 1694-1773

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Born into the English aristocracy, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield had the family connections and wealth to live, in the words of the Dictionary of National Biography, as "politician, wit, and letter-writer." Upon the death of Queen Anne in 1714, his family connections enabled him to leave his life of travel and leisure to take up at the age of 20 what was the beginning of a fluctuating political career. Chesterfield was influential in government circles but the role of o...

Nutter, Valentine, 1741-1836

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Valentine Nutter was a bookbinder and bookseller. During 1775-1776 he bound over 250 sets of the Letters of Lord Chesterfield for bookseller Hugh Gaine. (The firm of Rivington and H. Gaine reprinted the four-volume edition published in London by Dodsley in 1774.) Hugh Gaine was a printerand editor in New York City who established as weekly publication, the Mercury, that supported the Loyalist cause during the American Revolution. After the war he was allowed to continue his bookselling business....

Gaine, Hugh, 1726 or 1727-1807

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