Contributions towards a dictionary of English book-collectors : as also of some foreign collectors whose libraries were incorporated in English collections or whose books are chiefly met with in England / edited by Bernard Quaritch.

London : Bernard Quaritch, 1892-1921.

14 volumes : portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm

Running title: A dictionary of book collectors

A series of independent, separately paged contributions by various writers, planned to be ultimately thrown into one alphabet in several volumes. Interrupted by the death of the editor in 1899, 13 parts having been published. Pt. 14, 1921, containing t.-p., index, etc., completes the work

Copy 1. Pts 1-7. Supplier/Donor: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 5 - 10 December 1898. No William Morris book label but is lot 817 from the Morris sale catalogue.

pt. I. Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury. Billbald Pirkheimer, of Nuremberg. 1892.--pt. II. Mary Stuart, queen of Scots. Charles Spencer, third earl of Sunderland. Sir John Thorold. Colonel Thomas Stanley. James Edwards. Thomas Edwards. John Rennie. Henry Perkins. Henry Huth. 1892.--pt. III. Thomas Allen. John Horne Tooke. Benjamin Heath Malkin. George John, earl Spencer. Mrs John Rylands. 1892.--pt. IV. William Beckford. The Earl of Jersey. Stanesby Alchorne. Bishop John Shirwod. Thomas Pearson. Sir Andrew Balfour. Sir Peter Lely. Thomas Caldecott. Christopher Hodges. Count Borromeo. Alexander Nicholson. 1893.--pt. V. The tenth and eleventh dukes of Hamilton. Sir James Hope of Hopetoun and the earls of Hopetoun. Frederick Perkins. The Earl of Buckinghamshire. The Duke of Buccleuch. 1894.--pt. VI. John Ramsay McCulloch. John Dent. Rev. Theodore Williams. Sir William Tite. Christopher Hodges. William Alexander. Rev. Richard Ormerod. 1895

(cont.) pt. VII. John Matthew Gutch. Rev. Thomas Goodinge. Rev. Isaac Gosset. Richard, duke of Buckingham. Edward Vernon Utterson. Thomas Shadford Walker. William Roscoe. 1895.--pt. VIII. W.E. Gladstone. James Lenox. Edward Fitzgerald. John Percy. Robert S. Turner. Mary Stuart: a correction. 1896.--pt. IX. The Duke of Roxburghe. Henry Thomas Buckle. Michael Wodhull. George Baker. N.P. Simes. 1897.--pt. X. Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham. George Daniel. C.W. Frederickson. Edward Craven Hawtrey. John Cole Nicholl. 1897.--pt. XI. Sir Richard Burton. Rush Christopher Hawkins. John Dryden. George Hibbert. Sir Mark Masterman Sykes. Richard Smith. 1898.--pt. XII. An alphabetical roll of book collectors from 1316 to 1898, by W.C. Hazlitt. 1898.--pt. XIII. Johnsons of Spalding. Narcissus Luttrell. Humphrey Dyson. John Evelyn. Gerald Fitzgerald, earl of Kildare. Ben. Jonson. Gabriel Harvey. Charles Deane. Zelotes Hosmer. Edmund B. O'Callaghan. John A. Rice. Dr. Richard Mead. 1899.--pt. XIV. Preliminary matter and portrait of the editor. 1921.