A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of Roxburgh... - 9781108065832

A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of RoxburgheArranged by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall\nAuthor(s): Robert Harding Evans\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108065832, 978-1108065832\nSynopsis\nThe dispersal in 1812 of the library of John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe [tel] 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 [tel], 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.