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HEBER, RICHARD (1773-1833)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 167 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HEBER, RICHARD (1773-1833) , English book-collector, the half-brother of Reginald
Heber
 , was born in London on the 5th of 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 continental book-sales, purchasing sometimes single volumes, sometimes whole libraries. Sir Walter Scott, whose intimate friend he was, and who dedicated to him the
sixth
 
canto
  of Marmion, classed
Heber
 's library as " superior to all others in the world "; Campbell described him as " the fiercest and strongest of all the bibliomaniacs." He did not confine himself to the purchase of a single copy of a
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 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 death the sale of that 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 property in Shropshire and Yorkshire, and was 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
Athenaeum
  Club, London. He died in London on the 4th of October 1833.


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