Richard Heber (1773-1833)

Fletcher, English Book Collectors, pp.336-41.
de Ricci, English Collectors, pp.102-5 etc.
Arnold Hunt, 'The Sale of Richard Heber's Library', Robin Myers et al. (eds), Under the Hammer: Book Auctions Since the Seventeenth Century (Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2001), pp.143-71

Richard Heber's books can often be recognised by his acquisition note in characteristic small handwriting; or by the neat excision where it has been cut from the top right-hand corner of the first flyleaf:

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Heber's characteristic inscription

A rectangular ink stamp 'BIBLIOTHECA HEBERIANA', was added, according to Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly (lecture, 26/11/2000), probably by Thomas Frognell Dibden, in only the more valuable books:

[From the Penn Provenance Project]

Sometimes both occur together:

Heber stamp and inscription

[From the Penn Provenance Project]

Updated 17/11/12
Peter Kidd