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Quaritch
Quaritch is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899), German-born British bookseller and bibliographer *Bernard Alfred Quaritch Bernard Alfred Quaritch (13 January 1871 – 27 August 1913) was the son of antiquarian book dealer Bernard Quaritch, and continued his father's business in London until his own death in Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of th ... (1870–1913), British bookseller and collector * Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales (1900–1981), English historian See also * Colonel Quaritch, VC, is an 1888 novel by H. Rider Haggard {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Quaritch
Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch ( ; April 23, 1819 – December 17, 1899) was a German-born British bookseller and collector. The company established by Bernard Quaritch in 1847 lives on in London as Bernard Quaritch Ltd, dealing in rare books and manuscripts, as well as publishing books. Early life Quaritch was born in Worbis, Germany. After being apprenticed to a bookseller, he went to London in 1842, and was employed by Henry Bohn, the publisher. Work in London In 1847 he started a bookseller's business off Leicester Square, becoming naturalized as a British subject. In 1848 he started to issue a monthly ''Catalogue of Foreign and English Books''. About 1858 he began to purchase rare books, one of the earliest of such purchases being a copy of the ''Mazarin Bible'' (usually known as the Gutenberg Bible), and within a period of forty years he possessed six separate copies of this rare and valuable edition. In 1860 he moved to Piccadilly. In 1873 he published the ''Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Alfred Quaritch
Bernard Alfred Quaritch (13 January 1871 – 27 August 1913) was the son of antiquarian book dealer Bernard Quaritch, and continued his father's business in London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ... until his own death in Brighton on 27 August 1913. According to journalist and book collector Bernard Falk (1882-1960), The business survives to this day. References English booksellers Burials at Highgate Cemetery 1871 births 1913 deaths 19th-century English businesspeople {{business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales
Horace Geoffrey "H.G." Quaritch Wales (1900–1981) was educated at Charterhouse School, and Queens' College, Cambridge. He was an adviser to Rama VI and Rama VII of Siam from 1924 to 1928. He is the author of the study ''Siamese State Ceremonies'' (1931) and ''Ancient Siamese Government and Administration'' (1934).John Guy (1995). The Dorothy and Horace Quaritch Wales Bequest — A Note. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series), 5 , pp 91-92 doi:10.1017/S1356186300013511 Bibliography ''Siamese State Ceremonies: their history and function''First published in 1931. Republished with explanatory notes 1992. First edition digitized 2005. *''Towards Angkor in the Footsteps of the Indian Invaders;;lwith a foreword by Sir Francis Younghusband... and with forty-two illustrations from photographs and several maps. 1937 *''Years of Blindness''. 1943 ("memoir of his travels through Asia at the end of the British Empire and European Imperialism f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
