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[[File:Henry Huth.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Henry Huth. Project Gutenberg.]]
Approximately 400 items from the Huth collection are now at the Folger. Henry Huth (1815–1878) collected the bulk of the library. His son, Alfred Henry Huth (1850–1910), inherited the collection, and continued to add to it. Alfred Henry bequeathed fifty books of their choice to the British Library (then the British Museum); the remainder of the Huth family library was dispersed at auction.
 
==Huth collection printed catalogs==
Scanned copies of the Huth collection catalogs are available through Hathi Trust.
* ''A catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, and engravings, collected by Henry Huth, with collations and bibliographical descriptions...'' (1880): [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001176482 five volumes]
* ''Catalogue of the fifty manuscripts and printed books bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth'' (1912): [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001166943 one volume]
* ''Catalogue of the famous library of printed books, illuminated manuscripts, autograph letters, and engravings, collected by Henry Huth and since maintained and augmented by his son Alfred H. Huth ... sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auctioneers''
** Engravings and woodcuts (4–6 July 1911): [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010363182 one volume]
** Autograph letters (12–13 June 1911): [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433089895332?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 one volume]
** Books and manuscripts (15 November 1911–25 June 1920): [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001166320 nine volumes]
** Books unsold or returned as imperfect (27 February 1922): [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015033648067?urlappend=%3Bseq=309 one volume]


Henry Huth (1815–1878) was a book collector and bibliophile, and father of Alfred Henry Huth (1850–1910), also a noted bibliophile. The Huths were prior owners of a number of Folger items. The Huth family library was dispursed between 1911 and 1920, totalling "8357 lots spread over nine sections." <ref>P. R. Quarrie, ‘Huth, Alfred Henry (1850–1910)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34077 accessed 20 Jan 2015</ref>
==Notable items now at the Folger==


===Notable items now at the Folger===
Henry Oxinden, ''Miscellany of Henry Oxinden [manuscript], ca. 1642-1670''. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=226678/ V.b.110] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/814y6z/ LUNA Digital Image]
[http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Huth&Search_Code=NAME_&CNT=50&PID=elpSM1W2_znYGSmDyaIWFy4q0VoUi&BROWSE=12&HC=352&SID=6 352 items in Hamnet] have the former owner "Huth Library." Below are some notable examples.


Henry Oxinden, ''Miscellany of Henry Oxinden [manuscript], ca. 1642-1670''. Call number: [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/814y6z V.b.110] [Luna link]
Edmund Spenser, ''The shepheardes calender. ''London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, 1579. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=102053/  STC 23089] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/36jd24/ LUNA Digital Image]


Edmund Spenser, ''The shepheardes calender. ''London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, 1579. Call number: [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/36jd24 STC 23089] [Luna link]
''Robin Good-Fellovv, his mad prankes and merry iests. Full of honest mirth, and is a fit medicine for melancholy. ''London: by Thomas Cotes, and are to be sold by Francis Groue, 1639. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=167642 STC 12017] and [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/2267b1/ LUNA Digital Image]


''Robin Good-Fellovv, his mad prankes and merry iests. Full of honest mirth, and is a fit medicine for melancholy. ''London: by Thomas Cotes, and are to be sold by Francis Groue, 1639. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=167642 STC 12017] [Hamnet link]
==Huth bookplates==
===Huth bookplates===


A selection of bookplates from the Huth family.
Items from the Huth library are identified by distinctive oval leather bookplates with legend "EX MVSAEO HVTHII." Read more in a [https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2018/07/ex-muso-huthii.html blog post] by Peter Kidd about the Huth bookplates.
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File:Huth exlibris v.b.110.jpg|Huth Exlibris, from v.b.110
File:Huth ExLibris2 STC 23089.jpg|Huth Exlibris, from STC 23089, Edmund Spenser's ''The shepheardes calender''
File:Huth ExLibris2 STC 23089.jpg|Huth Exlibris, from STC 23089, Edmund Spenser's ''The shepheardes calender''
File:Huth exlibris STC9.jpg|Huth Exlibris, from STC 9, Martin Aray's Discoverie and confutation of a tragical fiction
File:Huth exlibris STC9.jpg|Huth Exlibris, from STC 9, Martin Aray's Discoverie and confutation of a tragical fiction
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Henry Huth. Project Gutenberg.

Approximately 400 items from the Huth collection are now at the Folger. Henry Huth (1815–1878) collected the bulk of the library. His son, Alfred Henry Huth (1850–1910), inherited the collection, and continued to add to it. Alfred Henry bequeathed fifty books of their choice to the British Library (then the British Museum); the remainder of the Huth family library was dispersed at auction.

Huth collection printed catalogs

Scanned copies of the Huth collection catalogs are available through Hathi Trust.

  • A catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, and engravings, collected by Henry Huth, with collations and bibliographical descriptions... (1880): five volumes
  • Catalogue of the fifty manuscripts and printed books bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth (1912): one volume
  • Catalogue of the famous library of printed books, illuminated manuscripts, autograph letters, and engravings, collected by Henry Huth and since maintained and augmented by his son Alfred H. Huth ... sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auctioneers
    • Engravings and woodcuts (4–6 July 1911): one volume
    • Autograph letters (12–13 June 1911): one volume
    • Books and manuscripts (15 November 1911–25 June 1920): nine volumes
    • Books unsold or returned as imperfect (27 February 1922): one volume

Notable items now at the Folger

Henry Oxinden, Miscellany of Henry Oxinden [manuscript], ca. 1642-1670. Call number: V.b.110 and LUNA Digital Image

Edmund Spenser, The shepheardes calender. London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, 1579. Call number: STC 23089 and LUNA Digital Image

Robin Good-Fellovv, his mad prankes and merry iests. Full of honest mirth, and is a fit medicine for melancholy. London: by Thomas Cotes, and are to be sold by Francis Groue, 1639. Call number: STC 12017 and LUNA Digital Image

Huth bookplates

Items from the Huth library are identified by distinctive oval leather bookplates with legend "EX MVSAEO HVTHII." Read more in a blog post by Peter Kidd about the Huth bookplates.

  • Huth Exlibris, from STC 23089, Edmund Spenser's The shepheardes calender

    Huth Exlibris, from STC 23089, Edmund Spenser's The shepheardes calender

  • Huth Exlibris, from STC 9, Martin Aray's Discoverie and confutation of a tragical fiction

    Huth Exlibris, from STC 9, Martin Aray's Discoverie and confutation of a tragical fiction