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[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.
[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]
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]


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]
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]
 
''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===


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Henry Huth. Project Gutenberg.

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

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: 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

A selection of bookplates from the Huth family.

  • Huth Exlibris, from v.b.110

    Huth Exlibris, from v.b.110

  • 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


  1. ↑ 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