Robert H. Taylor
Robert H. Taylor (died, aged 76, on 5 May 1985) was a bibliophile who was president of the Grolier Club, the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Bibliographical Society of America (1970-1971).[1]
He donated his collection of 7,000 books, manuscripts and drawings to Princeton University in 1971.[2][3] He had graduated from Princeton in 1930.
Grandson of businessman and politician John Emory Andrus, Taylor served as director of the Surdna Foundation, a philanthropy established by Andrus in 1917.
Collecting[edit]
Taylor's collection was noted for its works by Anthony Trollope and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.[4] One important item owned by Taylor was the original manuscript for Sheridan's The School for Scandal which he acquired via Barton Currie.[5][6] The collection also includes a number of original manuscripts of John Locke.[7] One of his notable works was translating the Burmese writer, Thein Pe Myint's Wartime Traveller into English.
References[edit]
- ^ Robert H. Taylor, 76, Bibliophile and Writer. The New York Times, 9 May 1985. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ Robert H. Taylor, "Contemporary Collectors III: The Robert H. Taylor Library" in The Book Collector Vol. 3, no. 4 (Winter, 1954).
- ^ Rare Books Division. Princeton University, 21 June 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ^ "Philip Hofer and Robert H. Taylor." The Book Collector 34 (no 3). Autumn 1985: 281-292."
- ^ Barton Currie: Formidable Book Angler. Kurt Zimmerman, American Book Collecting, 6 February 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ Randall, David A. (1969) Dukedom Large Enough. New York: Random House, p. 77.
- ^ The Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton, New Jersey. John Locke Manuscripts, 5 September 2010. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
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