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RICHARD HEBER (1773-1833)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 167 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD HEBER (1773-1833)  ,
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English
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book-
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collector, the
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half-
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brother of Reginald Heber, was born in
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London on the 5th of
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January 1773 . As an undergraduate at Brasenose College, Oxford, he began to collect a purely classical library, but his taste broadening, he became interested in early English drama and literature, and began his wonderful collection of rare books in these departments . He attended
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continental book-sales, purchasing sometimes single volumes, sometimes whole
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libraries .
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Sir Walter Scott, whose intimate friend he was, and who dedicated to him the
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sixth canto of Marmion, classed Heber's library as "
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superior to all others in the
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world "; Campbell described him as " the fiercest and strongest of all the bibliomaniacs." He did not confine himself to the
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purchase of a single copy of a
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work which:took his f ancy . "No gentleman," he remarked, " can be without three copies of a book, one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers." To such a
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size did his library grow that it over-ran eight houses, some in England, some on the Continent . It is estimated to have cost over oo,000, and after his
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death the sale of that
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part of his collection stored in England realized more than £56,000 . He is known to have owned 15o,000 volumes, and probably many more . He possessed extensive landed
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property in Shropshire and
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Yorkshire, and was
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sheriff of the former county in 1821, was member of Parliament for Oxford University from 182x-1826, and in 1822 was made a D.C.L. of that University . He was one of the founders of the
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Athenaeum Club, London . He died in London on the 4th of
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October 1833 .

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