(AUCTION CATALOGUE: FARMER, R.). Bibliotheca Farmeriana. A Catalogue of the Curious, Valuable and Extensive Library, in Print and Manuscript, of the late Rev'd. Richard Farmer, D.D....
2 p.l., 379 pp. 8vo, cont. marbled boards (quite decently rebacked, corners a little worn, first few leaves with some dampstaining). [London]: T. King, 1798. The auction catalogue, priced throughout in a contemporary hand, of the large and important library formed by Farmer (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and friend of Dr. Johnson. "He was particularly interested in the minor lights of Elizabethan literature, such as Robert Greene and Nicholas Breton... he secured a large part of Narcissus Luttrell's collections. He also owned a celebrated volume of thirteen poetical pieces, mainly from the press of Wynkyn de Worde which went to the Duke of Roxburghe."De Ricci, p. 58. "There were three things, it is said, which he loved above all others, namely, old port, old clothes, and old books; and three things which nobody could persuade him to do, namely to rise in the morning, to go to bed at night, and to settle an account."D.N.B., VI, pp. 1078-80. 8199 lots and 68 lots of pictures. Very good copy. Bookplate of A.N.L. Munby.
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