![]() Hartshorne pursued John Bull successfully through the courts. John Bull hinted over two of its issues at the idea that it was sexual. He was one of the founders of the Athenaeum Club, London. Heber was one of the 18 founders in 1812 of the Roxburghe Club of bibliophiles. As an undergraduate, he began to collect a purely classical library, but his taste broadening, he became interested in early English drama and literature, and began his wonderful collection of rare books in these departments. ![]() A taste for book collecting was developed in him in childhood. Succeeding on the death of his father in 1804 to large estates in Yorkshire and Shropshire, which he considerably augmented, he forthwith devoted himself to the purchase of rare books.Īt 19 he edited the works of Silius Italicus (2 vols 12mo, 1792), and a year later prepared for the press an edition of Claudiani Carmina (2 vols, 1793). Richard was born in London, and attended Brasenose College, Oxford. Richard Heber was an English book-collector. After he died there was, well-founded, gossip that he had been homosexual, however he was very close to another book collector named Frances Mary Richardson Currer.Ĭurrer helped Heber when he was in financial difficulties and came to aid his reputation after he died. He was the half brother of Reginald Heber, a hymn writer. This immense library was disposed of by auction after the owner's death, the sale lasting 216 days and realizing more than £60,000. Allibone in his Dictionary of Authors computes the volumes in England at 113,195, and those in France and Holland at 33,632, making a total of 146,827, to which must be added a large collection of pamphlets. At his death his collection in England was estimated by Dibdin at 105,000 volumes, exclusive of many thousands on the Continent, the whole having cost upward of £180,000. "No gentleman," he remarked, "can be without three copies of a book, one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers." To such a size did his library grow that it overran eight houses, some in England, some on the Continent. Thomas Campbell described him as "the fiercest and strongest of all the bibliomaniacs." He did not confine himself to the purchase of a single copy of a work which took his fancy. Sir Walter Scott classed Heber's library as "superior to all others in the world". After ransacking England for books, Heber travelled extensively on the Continent, purchasing everywhere, and leaving large depots of books in Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, and elsewhere in the Netherlands and Germany.Īt booksales he sometimes purchased single volumes, sometimes whole libraries. ![]() ![]() (age 60) London, Greater London, United KingdomĪt 19 he edited the works of Silius Italicus (2 vols 12mo, 1792), and a year later prepared for the press an edition of Claudiani Carmina (2 vols, 1793).
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