(AUCTION CATALOGUE: CROFTS, T.). Bibliotheca Croftsiana. A Catalogue of the Curious and Distinguished Library of the late Reverend and Learned Thomas Crofts, A.M....and Fellow of the Royal and Antiquary Societies, deceased:
which will be sold by Auction, by Mr. Paterson...on Monday, April 7. 1783. and the Forty-Two following Days. xvi, 420 pp. Thick 8vo, modern cloth-backed boards, uncut. [London: 1783]. A fine library of 8360 lots, notable for its Italian books, which De Ricci considered "the finest library of old Italian books yet seen in England; his sale (7 April 1783) also contained a number of fine French chivalry-romances" (p. 56). Crofts (1722-81), also had much fine early music, Spanish novels, Scandinavica, Polonica, and Eastern travel. This copy belonged to Frank Marcham (bookplate dated 1899) who has interleaved this copy with fine paper and placed prices and buyers' names for each lot in his rather neat hand. Fine copy. Taylor, Book Catalogues, pp. 169"few eighteenth-century English libraries show such a preponderance of cinquecento books" (and see pp. 168 & 238).
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