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, Esq. [...]

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, Esq. [...]

Author: Collier, John P. (John Payne)

Year: 1834

Full title: 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, Esq., and Prices and Purchasers’ Names. 4to. f. [1], pp. 34, [v]-vii, f. [1], pp. 355. Original morocco-backed boards. Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe. A reissue of part IV of the sheets of the Heber sale catalogue (see Bib# 1729174/Fr# 923 in this collection), issued with a trade title and an additional 34 pages of prices and buyers’ names. John Payne Collier supplied about 300 of the nearly 550 informative notes to this catalogue of Richard Heber’s books. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 239-246; II, A18b.