Thornton's: Joseph Thornton

Thornton's Bookshop

Established in Oxford in 1835
(Internet and mailorder sales only)

Member of the ABA 1906- 2019

4 generations of the Thornton Family

Joseph Thornton: 1808 - 1891
Founder of Thornton's Bookshop, Est. 1835

John Henry Thornton

John Henry Thornton in later years
Frederick Stanbury Thornton

Frederick Stanbury Thornton older
John Thornton (left) after getting
an honorary degree from
Oxford University
One of the others in the picture is
Blackwell's antiquarian Mr. East

Catalogue 200 (1915)

Leaflet produced on the re-opening of the bookshop in 1983
Inside of this leaflet showing John (Jack) thornton at his desk in what was at the time one of the last so called counting houses in the U.K. It was destroyed during the renovations in 1983/1984.

Taunton's guide to Oxford

Joseph Thornton: 1808 - 1891 Founder of Thornton's Bookshop, Est. 1835
John Henry Thornton
John Henry Thornton in later years	Frederick Stanbury Thornton

Frederick Stanbury Thornton older	John Thornton (left) after getting an honorary degree from Oxford University One of the others in the picture is Blackwell's antiquarian Mr. East
Catalogue 200 (1915)
Leaflet produced on the re-opening of the bookshop in 1983	Inside of this leaflet showing John (Jack) thornton at his desk in what was at the time one of the last so called counting houses in the U.K. It was destroyed during the renovations in 1983/1984.