The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London 2 Volume Set
The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London 2 Volume Set
John Nichols
$93.99
USDThis 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.
Product details
April 2014Multiple copy pack
9781108074063
822 pages
218 × 145 × 51 mm
1.04kg
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Memoirs of the author
- John Dunton's life and errors
- 1. From his birth to his fifteenth year
- 2. An idea of a new life
- 3. Life and errors
- 4. Idea of a new life
- 5. Of bachelorship
- 6. Idea of a new life
- 7. Life and errors from the day of his marriage
- 8. Idea of a new life
- 9. Brief characters of some eminent persons
- 10. The after-thought. Volume 2:
- 11. Dunton's journal, part 2
- 12. The living elegy
- 13. Dunton's shadow
- 14. Extracts from The Dublin Scuffle
- Extracts from Dunton's Athenian project
- Extracts for Mordecai's memorial
- An appeal to King George I
- List of Dunton's political tracts
- Analysis of his MSS preserved in Dr Rawlinson's collections in the Bodleian Library.
