William Hutton selling a customer a book outside his Birmingham shop. William Hutton, 1723 - 1815. English bookseller, poet, historian and travel writer. He was the first important historian of the city of Birmingham and authored a book, History of Birmingham, in 1781. After an engraving by an unknown artist on the front cover of The British Workman, published October I, 1867.

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