Fox-Strangways, Edward Henry Charles James (1905-1964), 7th Earl of Ilchester; the family had a large library on the first floor of its London residence, Holland House, Kensington (`Holland House' written on book-plate of S-081); see Derek Hudson, Holland House in Kensington (London, 1967), pl. xiii (reproduction of painting of the library in 1838), plan at 134; the most valuable books were removed in the early months of World War II (Hudson 125), and the majority of what remained was salvaged when the house was bombed in Sept. 1940; a two-day sale of books was held at Hodgson's in July 1947 and made £5280 (Hudson 128); for Holland House see also London Encyclopædia, 386-7; obituary notice in The Times, 24 Aug. 1964, 10; sale (London: Sotheby's, 11 June 1963). ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1905 to 1964. Period: 20th century.

9 entries:

• B-148(1) Benivieni, Domenico — Dialogo della verità della dottrina predicata da Savonarola [Italian]. — [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, after 8 May 1497]. 4°.
• S-074(1) Savonarola, Hieronymus — Epistola a tutti gli eletti di Dio [Italian]. — [Florence:
• S-075(1) Savonarola, Hieronymus — Epistola contra sententiam excommunicationis (with Italian translation by Filippo Cioni). — [Florence: Johannes Petri, after 19 June 1497]. 4°.
• S-081(1) Savonarola, Hieronymus — Expositio in Psalmum L Miserere mei Deus [Italian] Expositione sopra il salmo L Miserere mei Deus. — [Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, c.1500]. 4°.
• S-083(1) Savonarola, Hieronymus — Expositio in septem gradus Bonaventurae (with Italian translation by Filippo Cioni). — [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, not before Feb. 1497/8]. 4°.
• S-084(1) Savonarola, Hieronymus — Expositione sopra l'orazione della Vergine [Italian]. — [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, after Apr. 1496]. 4°.
• S-086(1) Savonarola, Hieronymus — Expositio orationis dominicae [Italian] Expositione del pater noster. — Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 1494. 4°.
• S-088(1) Savonarola, Hieronymus — Lectione o vero sermone fatto a di 15 di Febbraio 1497 [1498] [Italian]. — [Florence: Antonio Tubini, Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus and Andrea Ghirlandi, c.1500]. 4°.
• S-096A(1) Savonarola, Hieronymus — Sermone fatto ai suoi frati nella vigilia di Natale [Italian]. — [Florence: Gian Stephano di Carlo da Pavia, c.1505?]. 4°.

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