ROPER, Abel (bookseller)]. A catalogue of two choice and considerable libraries of books, Latin and English, of two eminent and learned men deceased: are to be exposed to sale by way of auction, at Mr. Bridges's coffe-house ... on Monday the 22d day of this instant November 1680 . [London]: distributed at Master Bridges's house, Samuel Crouch's bookseller, and Christopher Wilkinson's bookseller, 1680. 4° (223 x 166mm). (Browned, tiny tear in last leaf, probably caused by the printing press.) 19th-century dark blue quarter roan over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (a little worn at extremities). Provenance : Bibliotheca Lindesiana (bookplate) -- Lionel and Philip Robinson (label recording gift to:) -- The Grolier Club, New York (deaccession stamp).
ROPER, Abel (bookseller)]. A catalogue of two choice and considerable libraries of books, Latin and English, of two eminent and learned men deceased: are to be exposed to sale by way of auction, at Mr. Bridges's coffe-house ... on Monday the 22d day of this instant November 1680 . [London]: distributed at Master Bridges's house, Samuel Crouch's bookseller, and Christopher Wilkinson's bookseller, 1680. 4° (223 x 166mm). (Browned, tiny tear in last leaf, probably caused by the printing press.) 19th-century dark blue quarter roan over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (a little worn at extremities). Provenance : Bibliotheca Lindesiana (bookplate) -- Lionel and Philip Robinson (label recording gift to:) -- The Grolier Club, New York (deaccession stamp). Identified as stock of Abel Roper in the British Library catalogue, it is presumably that of the elder Roper who died in early 1680. He bequeathed his stock to his nephew and namesake, then about 15 years old and in the employ of Christopher Wilkinson, a distributor of the present auction catalogue. The younger Roper (d.1726) set up on his own from 1688, became a political writer, and published, with W. Turner, the Bibliotheca Annua , a list of all English and Latin books printed in England annually in 1700 and 1701. The earliest book listed here is Higden's Polychronicon (Wynkyn de Worde 1495). Munby & Coral, p.3; Wing C-1412.
ROPER, Abel (bookseller)]. A catalogue of two choice and considerable libraries of books, Latin and English, of two eminent and learned men deceased: are to be exposed to sale by way of auction, at Mr. Bridges's coffe-house ... on Monday the 22d day of this instant November 1680 . [London]: distributed at Master Bridges's house, Samuel Crouch's bookseller, and Christopher Wilkinson's bookseller, 1680. 4° (223 x 166mm). (Browned, tiny tear in last leaf, probably caused by the printing press.) 19th-century dark blue quarter roan over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (a little worn at extremities). Provenance : Bibliotheca Lindesiana (bookplate) -- Lionel and Philip Robinson (label recording gift to:) -- The Grolier Club, New York (deaccession stamp).
ROPER, Abel (bookseller)]. A catalogue of two choice and considerable libraries of books, Latin and English, of two eminent and learned men deceased: are to be exposed to sale by way of auction, at Mr. Bridges's coffe-house ... on Monday the 22d day of this instant November 1680 . [London]: distributed at Master Bridges's house, Samuel Crouch's bookseller, and Christopher Wilkinson's bookseller, 1680. 4° (223 x 166mm). (Browned, tiny tear in last leaf, probably caused by the printing press.) 19th-century dark blue quarter roan over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (a little worn at extremities). Provenance : Bibliotheca Lindesiana (bookplate) -- Lionel and Philip Robinson (label recording gift to:) -- The Grolier Club, New York (deaccession stamp). Identified as stock of Abel Roper in the British Library catalogue, it is presumably that of the elder Roper who died in early 1680. He bequeathed his stock to his nephew and namesake, then about 15 years old and in the employ of Christopher Wilkinson, a distributor of the present auction catalogue. The younger Roper (d.1726) set up on his own from 1688, became a political writer, and published, with W. Turner, the Bibliotheca Annua , a list of all English and Latin books printed in England annually in 1700 and 1701. The earliest book listed here is Higden's Polychronicon (Wynkyn de Worde 1495). Munby & Coral, p.3; Wing C-1412.
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