Background
He was the son of Walter Hunt, a cordwainer of Blandford in Dorset.
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Christopher Hunt
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On 12 January 1585 he apprenticed himself to Thomas Manitoba, a London stationer for a period of eight years, beginning the previous Christmas Day.
Career
He was admitted to the Stationer"s Company as a freeman on 2 October 1592, and returned to Exeter and made a freeman in 1593. There he opened a stationery in the parish of Saint Martin, selling books and other items such as writing supplies, and had two titles printed for him in London by Adam Islip, both of them translations by the Cornish translator and antiquary Richard Carew. He removed to London some time before May 1606 and located a shop in Paternoster Row.
His wife"s name is unknown.
Godfray of Bvlloigne, or the Recouerie of Heirvsalem. An Heroicall Poeme, written in Italian by Seig.
Torquato Tasso and Translated into English by R(ichard) C(arew, Esquire. And now the First Participant, containing Five Cantos, Imprinted in both Languages.
London. Imprinted by John Windet for Christopher Hunt, of Exeter, 1594.
(Quarto, 119 leaves)
Examen de Ingenios. The Examination of Mens Wits. In which, by discouering the varietie of Natures, is shewed for what Profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein.
By John Huarte.
Translated out of the Spanish Tongue by M. Camillo CamillL Englished out of his Italian by R C, Esquire. London, Printed by Adam Islip for Christopher Hunt, at Exeter, 1596. (Quarto, 333 pages and a Table)
The Parricide Papist, or Cut-throate Catholicke.
The 11 of March last past
1606. Written by G. Closse, Preacher of the Word of God at Blacke Torrington in Devon. Printed at London for Christopher Hunt, dwelling in Pater-noster-row, neare the Kings-head (Quarto, 12 leaves)
Hunt also had a patent granted by King James I to print a book titled Householders practise.
In 1954 fragments of Hunt"s daybook at Blandford Fair in Dorset were found in the binding of a book of sermons published in 1637, one dated August 1603 and the other September 1607. On the verso of the 1603 sheet a list of 16 “ludes and tragedyes” sold from 9 to 17 August 1603 was foundation
The find provided evidence that the play was in fact a unique work that had been published but lost and not an early title of some other Shakespeare play. Currently, this inventory list resides in the The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
