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HENRY GEORGE BOHN (1796-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 137 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:GEORGE See also:BOHN (1796-1884)  , See also:British publisher, son of a See also:German bookbinder settled in See also:England, was See also:born in See also:London on the 4th of See also:January 1796 . In '831 he started as a dealer in rare books and " remainders." In 1841 he issued his " See also:Guinea " See also:Catalogue of books, a monumental See also:work containing 23,208 items . See also:Bohn was noted for his See also:book See also:auction sales: one held in '848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty See also:folio pages . Printed on this catalogue was the See also:information: " See also:Dinner at 2 o'See also:clock, dessert at 4, See also:tea at 5, and supper at 'o." The name of Bohn is principally remembered by the important See also:Libraries which he inaugurated: these were begun in '846 and comprised See also:editions of See also:standard See also:works and See also:translations, dealing with See also:history, See also:science, See also:classics, See also:theology and See also:archaeology, consisting in all of 766 volumes . One of Bohn's most useful and laborious undertakings was his revision (6 vols . '864) of The Bibliographer's See also:Manual of See also:English Literature (1834) of W . T . See also:Lowndes . The See also:plan includes See also:bibliographical and See also:critical notices, particulars of prices, &c., and a considerable addition to the See also:original work . It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a See also:great See also:publishing See also:house, but, finding that his sons had no See also:taste for the See also:trade, he sold the Libraries in '864 to Messrs . See also:Bell and Daldy, afterwards G . Bell & Sons .

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man of wide culture and many interests . He himself made considerable contributions to his Libraries: he collected pictures, See also:china and ivories, and was a famous See also:rose-grower . He died at See also:Twickenham on the 22nd of See also:August '884 .

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