Entry Corporate Name

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER

• control field: 40354

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

• control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

• control field: 20200604173401.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

• fixed length control field: 860103n| azannaabn |a ana c

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: n 85143190

035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

• System control number: (OCoLC)oca01515956

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: InU
• Language of cataloging: eng
• Description conventions: rda
• Transcribing agency: DLC
• Modifying agency: OrU

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

• Start period: 1691
• End period: 1697
• Source of date scheme: edtf

110 2# - HEADING--CORPORATE NAME

• Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Athenian Society (London, England)

368 ## - OTHER ATTRIBUTES OF PERSON OR CORPORATE BODY

• Type of corporate body: Societies
• Source: lcsh

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

• Place of residence/headquarters: London (England)
• Source of term: naf

410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME

• Control subfield: nnaa
• Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Athenian society, London

500 1# - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Control subfield: r
• Relationship information: Member:
• Personal name: Dunton, John,
• Dates associated with a name: 1659-1733

500 1# - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Control subfield: r
• Relationship information: Member:
• Personal name: Sault, Richard,
• Dates associated with a name: -1702

500 1# - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Control subfield: r
• Relationship information: Member:
• Personal name: Wesley, Samuel,
• Dates associated with a name: 1662-1735

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Its An alphabetical table comprehending the contents of the five first volumes of the Athenian gazette ... and of the history of the Athenian Society ... 1691.

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: BM
• Information found: (London. Athenian Society)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: NUC pre-1956
• Information found: (information note under Athenian Society, London: Founded 1690/91 by John Dunton for the publication of his Athenian gazette or Athenian mercury. Cf. Dunton's Life and errors, v. 1, p. 187-197 (especially p. 194) and H.R. Steeves in Mod. lang. rev., v. 7, p. 363-371. Never formally dissolved, but the Gazette was discontinued June 1697)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: LC data base, 12/13/85
• Information found: (hdg.: Athenian society, London)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Berry, H. Gender, society, and print culture in late Stuart England, 2003 :
• Information found: page 19 (the members of the Athenian Society who collaborated with John Dunton in writing The Athenian mercury were Richard Sault, a Cambridge mathematician and "hack writer," and Samuel Wesley, an Anglican minister) page 20 (another contributor to The Athenian mercury, who was never a formal member of the Athenian Society, was Dr. John Norris, a Cambridge Neo-Platonist philosopher. Readers of The Athenian mercury were "actively duped into thinking that the Athenian Society had a much larger membership." The authors led them to believe they had "taken into our Society a Civilian, a Doctor in Physick, and a Chyrurgeon [surgeon], on purpose to be more serviceable to the Age")

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Parks, S. John Dunton and the English book trade, 1976 :
• Information found: page 74 (the Athenian Society, 1691-1697) page 75-76 (Dunton created the Athenian Society to create "the illusion of a body of learned men engaged in replying to the questions submitted by readers." The Athenian Society was "the first appearance of the club framework in literature") page 80 (members: John Dunton; Richard Sault, the mathematician; and: Samuel Wesley, Dunton's brother-in-law. Sault enlisted Dr. John Norris, who offered his assistance without pay and was unwilling to become a permanent member of Dunton's board of editors. On April 10, 1691, Dunton, Sault, and Wesley met at Smith's Coffee-House, where they composed and signed the articles of agreement for the writing of The Athenian Mercury)