Smith, Richard (1590-1675); Secondary (under-sheriff) of the Poultry Compter (a debtors' prison in London); `one of the earliest collectors of Caxtons and Wynkyn de Wordes' (de Ricci, English Collectors, 28); see DNB; Fletcher, Collectors, 93-6; de Ricci, English Collectors, 28-9; London Encyclopædia, s. v. `Poultry Compter'; sale, Bibliotheca Smithiana: sive Catalogus librorum in quavis facultate insigniorum quos comparavit R. Smith. Horum auctio habebitur Maii die 15 1682 per R. Chiswel (London, 1682); on the sale see T. A. Birrell, `Books and Buyers in Seventeenth-century English Auction Sales', in Under the Hammer: Book Auctions since the Seventeenth Century, ed. Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote (New Castle, Del., and London, 2001), 51-64, at 55-8. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1590 to 1675. Period: 16th century to 17th century.

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• B-078(1) Bartholomaeus de Chaimis — Confessionale. — Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 25 May 1478. 4°.

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