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EDWARDS, James (1757-1816) – A Catalogue of the Valuable Library of James Edwards, Esq. London: W. Bulmer, 1815. 8° (221 x 145mm). 3 engraved plates of ancient Greek vases, interleaved, good, wide margins. (Occasional marginal thumb-soiling.) Contemporary calf, title in gilt on front cover, sides with gilt tooled border (rebacked with old spine relaid, recornered, new endpapers).
Interleaved with PRICES AND BUYERS' NAMES in a contemporary hand. Edwards was the son of William Edwards of Halifax (1720-1808), the celebrated bookbinder, who became one of the most successful and respected English booksellers after establishing himself in London in 1784. He specialised in acquiring great European book collections, such as the Pinelli (together with James Robson), and Paris de Meyzieu libraries, which he then sold in London by auction. After selling part of his stock in an anonymous sale at Christie's on 25 April 1804 (but retaining the finest books and manuscripts), he retired, a man of means, from business to a country estate, disposing of his firm to Robert Harding Evans (1778-1857) who, between 1812 and 1847, became the foremost auctioneer of 'literary properties', including Edwards's library (also Roxburghe, Bindley, Blandford, Drury, Dent, and Hibbert sales). Edwards's sale, which realized £8,467.10, included vellum copies of the Sweynheim & Pannartz Livy on vellum, Rome 1469 (£903.0.0), Martin Luther's own copy of the 1541 Wittenberg German Bible (£89.5.0), a tenth-century Gospels (£210.0.0), and the famous Bedford Missal (really a Book of Hours), now in the British Library (£687.15.0). The catalogue contains 9 lots of Greek vases, of which only the first three were sold. Dibdin, Bibliographical Decameron, III, 14-16 & 111-127; De Ricci, pp. 89-90; not in Blogie.
Interleaved with PRICES AND BUYERS' NAMES in a contemporary hand. Edwards was the son of William Edwards of Halifax (1720-1808), the celebrated bookbinder, who became one of the most successful and respected English booksellers after establishing himself in London in 1784. He specialised in acquiring great European book collections, such as the Pinelli (together with James Robson), and Paris de Meyzieu libraries, which he then sold in London by auction. After selling part of his stock in an anonymous sale at Christie's on 25 April 1804 (but retaining the finest books and manuscripts), he retired, a man of means, from business to a country estate, disposing of his firm to Robert Harding Evans (1778-1857) who, between 1812 and 1847, became the foremost auctioneer of 'literary properties', including Edwards's library (also Roxburghe, Bindley, Blandford, Drury, Dent, and Hibbert sales). Edwards's sale, which realized £8,467.10, included vellum copies of the Sweynheim & Pannartz Livy on vellum, Rome 1469 (£903.0.0), Martin Luther's own copy of the 1541 Wittenberg German Bible (£89.5.0), a tenth-century Gospels (£210.0.0), and the famous Bedford Missal (really a Book of Hours), now in the British Library (£687.15.0). The catalogue contains 9 lots of Greek vases, of which only the first three were sold. Dibdin, Bibliographical Decameron, III, 14-16 & 111-127; De Ricci, pp. 89-90; not in Blogie.
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