Stephen Parks research collection on John Dunton, 1962-1972.

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Stephen Parks research collection on John Dunton, 1962-1972.

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Correspondence, research copies, and writings documenting Stephen Parks's research on John Dunton and the English book trade. Correspondents include Dunton scholars Robert Haig, S. Hodgson, Patricia KoĢˆster, and Gilbert McEwen, as well as the American Antiquarian Society, British Museum, Glasgow University Library, and the Union Theological Seminary Library. Research copies consist of photocopies and photostats of primary and secondary sources. Copies of primary sources include two volumes of Dunton manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, Ms Rawlinson D.71 and D.72; Dunton's will and that of his father, Rev. John Dunton; Dunton imprints; and legal papers. Copies of secondary sources include a Harvard University Ph.D. dissertation, "The True Secret History of Mr. John Dunton," by Theodore Merryman Hatfield, 1926. Also includes reprints of two papers by Parks, "John Dunton and The Works of the Learned," and "Bookseller's Trade Sales," both from the journal The Library, 1968 and 1969.

4.77 linear feet (4 boxes)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Parks, Stephen Alan

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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 (16...

Dunton, John, 1659-1733

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English stationer and bookseller. After serving his apprenticeship, Dunton started his own bookselling business in London around 1684; he went to New England the next year, returning in 1686. He then opened a new bookshop in London and later sold books in Dublin. Dunton was himself the author of satires and political pamphlets as well as his Life and errors of John Dunton (1705). From the description of Receipt for loan from Thomas Jones, 1684 June 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...

Hatfield, Theodore Merryman.

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Dunton, John, 1627 or 1628-1676

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