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Paperback A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of Roxburghe: Arranged by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall Book

ISBN: 110806583X

ISBN13: 9781108065832

A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of Roxburghe: Arranged by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall

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,...

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