John A. Dunton (Bookseller of London):

Receipt for Loan from Thomas Jones, 1684

RLIN ID No.

NYGG02-A65

Main Entry

Dunton, John A., 1659-1733.

Title

Receipt for loan from Thomas Jones, 1684 June 10.

Physical Description

1 p.; 26 cm.

Historical/Biographical Note

English stationer and bookseller. After serving an apprenticeship, John Dunton started his own business in London around 1684 but went to New England the next year, returning in 1686. He then opened a new bookshop in London and later sold books in Dublin. He was himself the author of satires and political pamphlets as well as of The Life and Errors of John Dunton (1705).

Scope and Contents Note

One page holograph document in the form of receipt for a loan of £200 to John Dunton from Thomas Jones of Acton, Middlesex for Dunton’s bookselling business, with signatures of witnesses Obad[iah?] Marryat and Mary Freeman. The document is pasted down to the inside recto page of a paper folder; pasted down as a frontispiece is an engraved portrait of Dunton by John Swaine after a print by Michael van der Gucht.

General Note

Dunton’s seal showing a flying horse (Pegasus?) stamped in red wax to the right of his signature.

Names

Freeman, Mary, fl. 1684.

Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725.

Jones, Thomas, fl. 1684.

Marryat, Obadiah, fl. 1684.

Swaine, John, 1775-1860, engraver.

Subjects

Booksellers and bookselling. England. London. 17^th century.

Genres

Receipts. England. London. 17^th century.

Occupation (as reflected in collection)

Booksellers. England. London. 17^th century.

Location

Grolier Club, 47 East 60^th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022-1098.