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:
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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