Richard Smith 1590-1675
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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.