You might also like

More about Bibliotheca Askeviana

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 104 loyalty points

Book synopsis

The library of the physician Anthony Askew (1722–72) was outstanding in both printed books and manuscripts. He may have failed in his ambition to secure a complete collection of every printed edition of the Greek classics, but he did amass a classical library which remained unsurpassed until Spencer. Although he was later accused of plagiarism, virtually every edition of Aeschylus down to the 1850s cited 'Askew's collations'. He also secured Richard Mead's fine collection of Latin and Greek manuscripts, alongside other early classical codices from the Maffei library. The dispersal of Askew's collection in two sales, ten years apart, attracted international interest. Bidders at the 1775 book sale included George III, while the manuscript sale in 1785 led to acquisitions by the British Museum, the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library. Now reissued together, the sale catalogues have been annotated here by auction attendees who recorded prices and some purchaser details.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Bibliotheca Askeviana
• Subtitle: Sive, Catalogus librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew, M.D.
• Author: Baker and Leigh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9781108065849
• ISBN: 1108065848
• ID: 02090446
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 320 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. January 2014

Trending among others

---

---

---