Robert Harding Evans

Robert Harding Evans (1778–1857) was an English bookseller and auctioneer. Robert Harding Evans, engraving by Samuel Freeman after William Behnes.

Life Evans was the son of Thomas Evans (1742–1784). After an education at Westminster School he was apprenticed to Thomas Payne of the Mews Gate, and succeeded to the business of James Edwards, bookseller in Pall Mall, London.

In 1812 Evans began a long career as auctioneer with the sale of the Duke of Roxburghe's library. Among other famous libraries dispersed by him were those of: those of James Bindley, John Dent, George Hibbert, Dudley Long North, and some portions of Richard Heber's (1836). Six Letters of Publicola on the Liberty of the Subject and the Privileges of the House of Commons, originally published in the "Times", now collected and illustrated, London, 1810 (anonymous); A Letter on the Expediency of a Reform in Parliament, addressed to Lord Erskine, London, 1817.