Bernard Quaritch
| Bernard Quaritch FZS | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1819 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1899 | ||||||||||
| Residence | 15 Piccadilly, W | ||||||||||
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business publisher | ||||||||||
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A18/1/157 Ibid., to Dr John Beddoe, 2 Apr. 1883 - acknowledges cheque; George A. Stretton (collector) will send receipt; B. Quaritch purchased nearly half of Dr Barnard Davis’s library at the sale;
death reported in report of the council for 1899
Notes From Elsewhere
Bernard Quaritch, full name Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch, (April 23, 1819 – December 17, 1899) was a German-born British bookseller and collector.[
Publisher, successful antiquarian dealer and bookseller, of Prussian Wendish origin, who naturalized in England. “Fond of airing his views on politics and sociology in catalogue notes” with “a somewhat squat and awkward figure, occasionally rough manners, irrepressible egotism, pithy sayings, half humorous, half sardonic, delivered in a grating voice, combined to form an interesting if not a very attractive personality”.[189] He was the author of several works on bibliophilia. His son Bernard continued the family business after his father’s death, and it continues on today. Quaritch had extensive dealings with Burton from an early stage, no later than his preparations for his journey to Mecca in 1853, and left a reminiscence—see Volume 1. He remembered then supplying Burton with a disguised copy of Freytag's Dictionary of Arabic, “bound like a pair of Oriental MSS”. He also published Burton’s Kasidah (1880, anonymously) and his 6-volume Camoens set (1880-1884). Burton mentions him several times in his works, e.g. Ultima Thule and the Nights