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Sir Edward BYSSHE ca.1610-79

Biographical Note

Clarenceux King of Arms (Garter during the Interregnum, but ejected 1660).

Books

Library auctioned in London, 15.11.1679 (2361 lots), with some remaining manuscripts auctioned 4.7.1681 (joint sale). Manuscript inventory of his library in British Library Harl. MS 813 valued it at £300, and listed ca.2500 vols.

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. Reading as pastime: the place of light literature in some 17th-century gentlemen’s libraries, in R. Myers (ed), Property of a gentleman, Winchester, 1991, 113-131, 125-6.
  • Lee, B. N. British bookplates: a pictorial history. Newton Abbot, 1979. 16.
  • Mandelbrote, G. The organisation of book auctions in late seventeenth-century London, in R. Myers (ed), Under the hammer, London, 2001, 15-36.
  • Sherlock, Peter. "Bysshe, Sir Edward (c. 1610–1679), herald and politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.