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A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of Roxburghe - Arranged by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall (Paperback)
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A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of Roxburghe - Arranged by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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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 GBP1,000, while the Valdarfer
Boccaccio, the first edition of the Decameron, sold for GBP2,260.
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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