SMITH, JOSEPH. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus Librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli per Cognomina Authorum dispositus. Venice: Typis J. B. Pasquali, 1755. 4to, contemporary stabbed limp boards, a few repairs along front joint; front hinge cracked with a few early gatherings becoming loose or detached. Title printed in red and black; engraved title vignette. De Ricci, pp. 54-55; Taylor, pp. 261-62.

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SMITH, JOSEPH. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu Catalogus Librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli per Cognomina Authorum dispositus. Venice: Typis J. B. Pasquali, 1755. 4to, contemporary stabbed limp boards, a few repairs along front joint; front hinge cracked with a few early gatherings becoming loose or detached. Title printed in red and black; engraved title vignette. De Ricci, pp. 54-55; Taylor, pp. 261-62.

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Third edition and the first complete edition of Smith's library. Smith (1682-1770), who was British Consul at Venice, sold his valuable collection of incunabula (with a few manuscripts) to King George III in 1765 for #10,000. The collection became the nucleus of "The King's Library", now in the British Museum.

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