[Rarebooks] Offered: Heber's Collection of early English poetry... Pt. IV compiled by John Payne Collier, 1834

[Nina W. Matheson]

Friends and Colleagues,

We offer at a special price this uncommon and important auction catalog:


Heber, Richard. A catalogue of Heber's Collection of early English 
poetry, the drama, ancient ballads, and broadsides, rare and curious 
books on English, Scottish, and Irish history, and French romances, 
with notices by J. Payne Collier and prices and purchasers' names. 
London, Edward Lumley [1834].. Original quarter leather and dark 
brown paper boards, printed paper label on the backstrip. Boards 
rubbed, backstrip label missing pieces, hinges repaired, a sound copy 
with the book-plate of the Goodspeed's Book Shop reference library on 
front pastedown. A special edition prepared by John Payne Collier. 
WorldCat shows copies in 17 library holdings. From the preface: "This 
was the part of his library, of which Mr. Heber was the most proud, 
and which he laboured for nearly forty years..to enrich and 
complete". Seymour de Ricci / English Collectors of Books & 
Manuscripts, p. 103 (describes the 16 volumes constituting a complete 
set of the Bibliotheca Heberiana and notes this special edition of 
part IV). Ganzel / Fortune & Men's Eyes, the Career of John Payne 
Collier, p. 58: "Collier compiled the section on poetry, drama, 
ballads, and broadsides, and after the sale this section, Part IV of 
the original was published separately".  Uncommon.  (66731) 
$200.00.  Usual trade terms.

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