Regency Hot Spots: Dutton’s Circulating Library

La Belle Assemblee, 1807

On 45 Gracechurch Street in London, Dutton’s Universal Circulating Library and booksellers operated from 1799 until sometime in the late 1820s.  It was one of the principal London circulating libraries in a list that included:

A View of London, 1803

and Leigh’s New Picture of London’s (1822) list:

Dutton’s published this oft bizarre A Satirical View of London (1809) that had this to say about rustic gentry arriving in London:


 

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