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See also:BERNARD See also:QUARITCH (1819-1899) , See also:English bookseller and See also:collector, was See also:born at Worbis, See also:Germany, on the 23rd of See also:April 1819 . After being apprenticed to a bookseller, he went to See also:London in 1842, and was employed by See also:Bohn the publisher . In1847 he started a bookseller's business off See also:Leicester Square, becoming naturalized as a See also:British subject . In 1848 he started to issue a monthly See also:Catalogue of See also:Foreign and English Books . About 1858 he began to See also:purchase rare books, one of the earliest of such purchases being a copy of the Mazarine See also:Bible, and within a See also:period of See also:forty years he possessed six See also:separate copies of this rare and valuable edition . In 186o he removed to Piccadilly . In 1873 he published the Bibliotheca Xylographica, Tpographica et Palaeographica, a remarkable catalogue of See also:early productions of the See also:printing See also:press of all countries . He became a See also:regular buyer at all the See also:principal See also:book-sales of See also:Europe and See also:America, and from See also:time to time published a variety of other catalogues of old books . Amongst these may be mentioned the Supple-See also:mental Catalogue (1877), and in 188o an immense catalogue of considerably over 2000 pages . The last See also:complete catalogue of his stock was published in 1887–88 under the See also:title See also:General Catalogue of Old Books and See also:Manuscripts, in seven volumes, increased with subsequent supplements to twelve . All these catalogues are of considerable See also:bibliographical value . By this time See also:Quaritch had See also:developed the largest See also:trade in old books in the See also:world . Among the books that he published was Fitz-Gerald's See also:Omar Khayydm, and he was the See also:Agent for the publications of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries . He died at See also:Hampstead on the 17th of See also:December 1899, leaving his business to his son . |
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