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The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London 2 Volume Set : With the Lives and Characters of More Than a Thousand Contemporary Divines and Other Persons of Literary Eminence, Mixed media product Book

The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London 2 Volume Set : With the Lives and Characters of More Than a Thousand Contemporary Divines and Other Persons of Literary Eminence Mixed media product

Edited by John Nichols

Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries series

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This two-volume work, originally published in 1705 and now reissued in John Nichols' edition of 1818, was one of the earliest examples of autobiographical writing in English.

John Dunton (1659-1732), a highly eccentric bookseller and publisher, was also responsible for one of the first periodicals in London, the Athenian Gazette, which invited its readers to submit questions on any topic, to be answered by the Athenian Society, a group of learned men (in fact, Dunton himself and some cronies).

However, he was not a practical businessman, and the death of his wife and his own illness led to poverty, and to hack-work for others.

The Life and Errors was followed by pamphlets attacking those whom he blamed for his misfortunes.

Nichols added to the autobiography extracts from some of Dunton's other works, and the whole gives a fascinating picture of authors and the book trade in Restoration London.

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