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 Continue

Regency Hot Spots: Bookseller Shops and the Subscription Library

For most of the subjects of Reg Roms (gentlewomen and men), reading was a popular pastime to occupy days full of leisure.  In Town, there Continue