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Gilles Duval, « John Dunton (libraire et auteur, 1659-1733) ou la versatilité », XVII-XVIII. Revue de la Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, ID : 10.3406/xvii.2000.1486
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John Dunton is worthy of careful study both for his personality and his experiments as an author and a bookseller in a market that was no longer ruled by patrons but by the public. Though an eccentric, the whimsical founder of the Athenian Mercury typified the major trends of a time that innovated on all fronts, not only in fiction and periodicals but in the book trade as a whole. In his peculiar way he paved the way for many later developments.