A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of Roxburghe
Arranged by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
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- Author: Robert Harding Evans
- Date Published: January 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108065832
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The dispersal in 1812 of the library of John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe (1740–1804) was the bibliographical event of the decade and a key moment in 'bibliomania'. The huge collection contained illuminated medieval manuscripts, incunabula, fifteen books printed by Caxton, and all four Shakespeare folios. The sale, orchestrated by the bookseller and auctioneer Robert Harding Evans (1777–1857), attracted the greatest book collectors and dealers of the day, setting new records. For the first time in British auction history a single book fetched more than £1,000, while the Valdarfer Boccaccio, the first edition of the Decameron, sold for £2,260. Reported in The Times, the sale immediately gained mythological status. Reissued together here are the printed catalogue and its supplement, both annotated by an attendee at the auction who recorded the name of every buyer and the price paid for each book. Ed Potten, Head of Rare Books at Cambridge University Library, has provided a new introduction that places the catalogue in its wider context.
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- Date Published: January 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108065832
- length: 420 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.67kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Ed Potten
Condition of sale
Preface
1. Theology to mythology
2 Jurisprudence to government
3. Philosophy to apophthegms
4. Arts and sciences to medicine
5. Philology to rhetoric
6. Poetry
7. Dramatic poetry
8. Romances
9. Criticism
10. Satires
11. Polygraphy
12. Geography
13. History, universal
14. History,ancient
15. History, ecclesiastical
16. History, modern
17. Antiquities
18. Heraldry, genealogy, biography
A supplement to the catalogue
The prices of the Roxburghe library.-
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