You might email Quaritch and ask. If the book was sold to a private
collector, they may hesitate giving you the buyer's name. But if they
are feeling expansive, they might write to the buyer and ask
permission to tell you. Maybe.
Try: Donovan Rees <[log in to unmask]>
At 11:49 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
>I'm wondering whether anyone on the list knows the location of the one
>extant first edition of Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595) that
>is currently in private hands. (Ten are in libraries; only eleven are
>known, so far as I am aware.)
>
>The copy in question (the "Perry" copy) was in the Folger collection
>until 1991, when the library acquired the Farmer-Britwell-Jones copy
>that is now in their possession. The Perry copy went to the dealer
>(Quaritch) who had provided the F-B-J copy.
>
>I am assuming that Quaritch sold it, but haven't yet checked their
>catalogues to see whether the sale is recorded there. It occurred to me
>that if anyone on the list knows where it is, that might be a shortcut
>to the information.
>
>Thanks,
>
>David
>
>
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>David Lee Miller
>Professor of English & Comparative Literature
>University of South Carolina
>Columbia, SC 29208
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