(AUCTION CATALOGUE: BRAND, John, Rev.). Bibliotheca Brandiana. A Catalogue of the unique, scarce, rare, curious, and numerous Collection of Works on the Antiquity, Topography, and decayed Intelligence of Great Britain and Ireland, from the first invention of Printing down to the present time; Early Poetry, Classics, Belles Letters, and Miscellanies...from the Presses of Caxton, Winken de Worde, Pinson, and all the early and modern Printers; likewise the...Collection of Manuscripts
which will be sold by auction...by Mr. Stewart...on Wednesday, May 6, 1807, and Thirty-Six following Days. iv, 369 pp. 8vo, cont. grey boards (extremities rubbed, sympathetically backed in modern paper, some foxing), uncut. London: 1807. The first and more important of the two sales of the library of the Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer. "A large library of a somewhat different character from many of those mentioned above was brought together by John Brand (1744-1806), secretary to the Society of Antiquaries. According to his contemporaries, he hardly ever spent more than a few pence for his purchases and never had a book bound or mended. But London, in the late eighteenth century, was such a wonderful hunting-ground for the collector...that Brand's library, when sold by auction (6 May 1807 and 8 February 1808), was found to contain a large number of scarce books in English literature, history and topography."De Ricci, pp. 69-70.
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