Huth library
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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
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 [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: 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: STC 12017 [Hamnet link]
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
Huth Exlibris, from STC 9, Martin Aray's Discoverie and confutation of a tragical fiction
- ↑ 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