Editing Book collecting (section)

==Antiquarian book collecting==
{{seealso|Antiquarian book trade in the United States}}
Antiquarian book collecting may be roughly defined as an interest in books printed prior to 1900 and can encompass interest in 19th, 18th, 17th, 16th, and 15th-century books. Antiquarian book collectors are not exclusively interested in [[first edition]]s and first printings, although they can be. European books created before 1455 are all hand-written and are therefore one-of-a-kind historical artifacts in which the idea of "edition" and "printing" is irrelevant. Any book printed up to the year 1501 is known as an [[incunable]] or incunabulum. Such books command a premium and are particularly sought after by collectors interested in the history of printing.<ref>{{cite web|title=Collecting Guide: Incunabula|url=https://www.christies.com/features/Collecting-guide-to-incunabula-earliest-printed-books-11589-1.aspx|publisher=Christie's|access-date=27 April 2022|language=en|date=2021|archive-date=27 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427203358/https://www.christies.com/features/Collecting-guide-to-incunabula-earliest-printed-books-11589-1.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>  

[[File:ParadiseLost1720Ed.jpg|thumb|right|The beginning of ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' from a 1720 illustrated edition. Not a first edition but desirable among antiquarians.]]

The first English movable-type printer was [[William Caxton|Caxton]] in the late 15th century. Editions of his books from the 15th century are very rare. Occasionally, 16th-century editions similar to Caxton's books appear among antiquarian book dealers and auctions, often fetching very high prices. The last [[First Folio|Shakespeare First Folio]] of 1623 (first edition of the collected works of [[William Shakespeare]]) garnered a record-breaking $9,978,000 at [[Christie's]] in October 2020.<ref>{{cite web|title=William Shakespeare's 'First Folio' Sells for $9,978,000 and Sets World Auction Record for Any Work of Literature at Christie's|url=https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=9826&lid=1|publisher=Christie's|access-date=27 April 2022|language=en|date=2020|archive-date=27 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427202401/https://www.christies.com/about-us/press-archive/details?PressReleaseID=9826&lid=1|url-status=live}}</ref>  

Books owned by well-known individuals that also have a connection with the author (often as a gift from the author with a written dedication to the recipient) are known as [[Association copy|association copies]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/RareBooks/author-signature-signed-inscribed/association-copies.shtml | title=Association Copies | publisher=AbeBooks Inc. | access-date=13 August 2013 | archive-date=1 September 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901201155/http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/RareBooks/author-signature-signed-inscribed/association-copies.shtml | url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[The American School Library]] is an example of a very rare multi-volume boxed set with works by many popular or famous authors. Apparently the only extant full set is owned by the [[Smithsonian Institution's]] [[National Museum of American History]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The American School Library|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtQOHQAACAAJ|publisher=Harper & Brothers|access-date=7 November 2017|language=en|date=1839}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Hamel]|first1=Michael Olmert; [introduction by Christopher de|title=The Smithsonian book of books|date=1992|publisher=Smithsonian Books|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=0-89599-030-X|edition=1.|url=https://archive.org/details/smithsonianbooko00olme}}</ref>

=== Prominent book collectors ===
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* [[John Roland Abbey]]
* [[John Quincy Adams]]
* [[Darren Ashcroft]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lep.co.uk/news/environment/environment/alley-is-a-pile-of-rubbish-1-3847857|title=Lancashire Evening Post Darren Ashcroft|date=October 7, 2011|access-date=April 24, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080538/http://www.lep.co.uk/news/environment/environment/alley-is-a-pile-of-rubbish-1-3847857|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Clifton Waller Barrett]]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/small/collections/barrett/index.html|title= The Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature|publisher= University of Virginia Library|access-date= April 11, 2010|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100726183901/http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/small/collections/barrett/index.html|archive-date= July 26, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Chester Beatty]]
* [[William Thomas Beckford]]
* [[Martin Bodmer]]
* [[The Book Club of Detroit]]
* [[John Carter Brown]]
* [[Boudewijn Büch]]
* [[Anthony Collins (philosopher)|Anthony Collins]]
* [[George Cosmatos]]
* [[Robert Bruce Cotton]]
* [[Jules Desnoyers]]
* [[Joseph W. Drexel]]
* [[Alexandre Dumas, père]]
* [[Umberto Eco]]
* [[John Evelyn]]
* [[DeCoursey Fales]]
* [[Ian Fleming]]<ref>Twentieth Century Book Collectors and Bibliographers.{{ISBN|0-7876-3072-1}}. DLB Vol 201 p.81-88</ref> 
* [[Henry Clay Folger]]
* [[R. B. Freeman]]
* [[George III]]
* [[Edward Gibbon]]
* [[Stephen Jay Gould]]
* [[Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford]]
* [[Rush Hawkins]]
* [[Richard Heber]]
* [[Henry II of France]]
* [[Harrison D. Horblit]]<ref>{{cite book |title= A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books|last= Basbanes|first= Nicholas A.|year= 1999|publisher= Henry Holt|location= New York|isbn= 9780805061765|page= 461|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3Z-KL2voBoUC&q=horblit|access-date=April 11, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Arthur A. Houghton Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/history.cfm|title= Houghton Library: History|date= c. 2010|publisher= Harvard College Library|access-date= April 11, 2010|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100626063110/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/history.cfm|archive-date= June 26, 2010|url-status= dead}}</ref>
* [[Henry E. Huntington]]
* [[Thomas Jefferson]]
* [[Jerome Kern]]
* [[Geoffrey Keynes]]
* [[John Maynard Keynes]]
* [[Aleksey Khludov]]
* [[George Frederick Kunz]]
* [[Mark Lanier]]
* [[Robert Lenkiewicz]]
* [[Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis]]
* [[Josiah K. Lilly Jr.]]
* [[Frederick Locker-Lampson]]
* [[Antonio Magliabechi]]
* [[Alberto Manguel]]
* [[H. Bradley Martin]]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/21/arts/library-of-10000-rarities-to-be-sold-at-sotheby-s.html?pagewanted=1|title= Library of 10,000 Rarities To Be Sold at Sotheby's|author= Reif, Rita|date= December 21, 1988|work= [[The New York Times]]|access-date= April 11, 2010|archive-date= May 16, 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130516073528/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/21/arts/library-of-10000-rarities-to-be-sold-at-sotheby-s.html?pagewanted=1|url-status= live}}</ref>
* [[Larry McMurtry]]
* [[Wolfgang Menzel]]
* [[Dewitt Miller]]
* [[David Scott Mitchell]]
* [[Michel de Montaigne]]
* [[J. Pierpont Morgan]]
* [[William Morris]]
* [[Christoph Gottlieb von Murr]]
* [[A. Edward Newton]]
* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]
* [[Charles Nodier]]
* [[William Osler]]
* [[Samuel Pepys]]
* [[Charles Dyson Perrins]]
* [[Sir Thomas Phillipps]]
* [[Francis Place]]
* [[Abraham Rosenbach]]
* [[Lessing J. Rosenwald]]
* [[Ellen Ruben|Ellen G. K. Ruben]]
* [[Joaquín Rubio y Muñoz]]
* [[Arturo Alfonso Schomburg]]
* [[Martin Schoyen]]
* [[John MacKay Shaw]]
* [[Frederick Skiff]]
* [[Adam Smith]]
* [[Walter W. Stone]]
* [[Thomas W. Streeter]]
* [[George Thomason (book collector)|George Thomason]]
* [[Jay S. Walker]]
* [[Levinus Warner]]
* [[Andrew Dickson White]]
* [[John Griswold White]]
* [[Harry Elkins Widener]]
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