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Robert Harding Evans

1777 – 1857

English bookseller and auctioneer

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Lived 1777 – 1857 (aged 79–80). Robert Harding Evans was a businessperson, bookseller, auctioneer and publisher.

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.

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Born
1777
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Education
Westminster School

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Who was Robert Harding Evans?

English bookseller and auctioneer

When was Robert Harding Evans born?

Robert Harding Evans was born in 1777.

When did Robert Harding Evans die?

Robert Harding Evans died on 25 April 1857.

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Robert Harding Evans was a businessperson, bookseller, auctioneer and publisher.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Robert Harding Evans

· Wikidata: Q1755391

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