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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>
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===
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A selection of bookplates from the Huth family.
A selection of bookplates from the Huth family.
[[File:Huth exlibris v.b.110.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Huth Exlibris, from v.b.110]]
[[File:Huth exlibris v.b.110.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Huth Exlibris, from v.b.110]]
[[File:Huth ExLibris2 STC 23089.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Huth Exlibris, from STC 23089, Edmund Spenser's ''The shepheardes calender'']]
[[File:Huth ExLibris2 STC 23089.jpg|200px|middle|thumb|Huth Exlibris, from STC 23089, Edmund Spenser's ''The shepheardes calender'']]


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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." [1]

Notable Items now at the Folger

Huth bookplates

A selection of bookplates from the Huth family.

Huth Exlibris, from v.b.110
Huth Exlibris, from STC 23089, Edmund Spenser's The shepheardes calender
  1. ↑ P. R. Quarrie, ‘Huth, Alfred Henry (1850–1910)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 20 Jan 2015