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Revision as of 02:00, 2 June 2020
Sir Edward SHERBURNE 1616-1702
Biographical Note
Chief Clerk of the Ordnance, poet, translator.
Books
Two manuscript catalogues of his library survive, one ca.1670, listing ca.1000 titles (BL ms Sloane 857), and a later one dated 1681, listing ca.2000 titles (Bodleian ms Rawl.Q.b.3). He claimed to have lost an earlier library of 2000 volumes during the Civil War.
Sources
- Birrell, T. The library of Sir Edward Sherburne, in A. Hunt et al (eds.), The book trade and its customers, 1997, 189-204.
- Quehen, Hugh de. "Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702), translator and poet." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.