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Richard SMITH 1590-1675

Biographical Note

Secondary of the Poultry Counter.

Books

Amassed a library of over 8000 books, auctioned in London, 15.5.1682.

Sources

  • Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.
  • Beadle, R. Medieval English manuscripts at auction, 1676-c.1700, The Book Collector 53 (2004), 46-63.
  • Birrell, T. A. Books and buyers in 17th-century English auction sales, in R. Myers et al (eds), Under the hammer, London, 2001, 51-64.
  • Duff, E. G. The library of Richard Smith, The Library ns 8 (1907), 113-33.
  • Harding, Vanessa. "Smith [Smyth], Richard (bap. 1590, d. 1675), law officer and book collector." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Mandelbrote, G. The organisation of book auctions in late seventeenth-century London, in R. Myers (ed), Under the hammer, London, 2001, 15-36.
  • Richard Smith in Material Evidence in Incunabula.