Wodhull, Michael
Owner Id3894
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence1740 - 1816
Other InformationClassical scholar, translator of Euripides and outstanding collector; High-sheriff of Northamptonshire [Armorial book-stamp] (BL Clark's slips). BIBLIOGR: DNB; Fletcher, Collectors, 263-7; Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English Book-collectors [part IX 1897, by Frederick Clarke]; for his armorial book stamp see Davenport 405-6; A Catalogue of a Small, Curious and Very Valuable Collection of Books... (London: Leigh, Sotheby & Son, 3 Mar. 1801); Catalogue of a Very Valuable Collection of Books: The Duplicates of a Distinguished Collector's Library (London: Leigh Sotheby and Son, 24 Mar. 1803); Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library, Collected at the End of the Last and Beginning of the Present Century by Michael Wodhull, Esq., the Property of J. E. Severne, Esq. M. P., of Thenford House, Banbury, Northamptonshire (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 Jan. 1886); see bill from Bernard Quaritch, 20 Jan. 1886.
Wodhull's library was bequeathed in 1816 to his sister-in-law, Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; it last belonged to J. E. Severne, M.P., who sold it by auction in 1886 (Sotheby's). See the 'Catalogue of the extensive & valuable library collected at the end of the last and beginning of the present century by Michael Wodhull, Esq., translator of Euripides. The property of J. E. Severne, Esq. M.P., of Thenford House, Banbury'.
Wodhull sold a considerable part of his library in his lifetime, with two major sales in March 1801 and March-April 1803. The rest of the library, comprising 4000 volumes, remained at Thenford for 80 years. Disposed of in January 1886 by Sotheby's in 2804 lots, followed by a sale of charters, deeds and autograph material in November 1886. His books are highly prized - many on large paper and vellum, finely bound in russia and morocco, usually bearing his armorial stamp.
BMC IV, p. 138: IB.19353/1;
BMC V, p. 186: IA.24813; p. 194: IA.19861; p. 215: IA.20093; p. 251: IB.20609; p. 273: IA.20786; p. 349: IB.21111; p. 408: IB.22806; p. 431: IA.23703; p. 432: IB.23711; p. 587: IA.25132; p. 639: IA.27185;
BMC VI, p. 670: IA.27604; p. 750: IB.26489; p. 802: IC.28606; p. 863: IC.29412; p. 869: IB.29344; p. 874: IB.29556; p. 887: IA.28349;
BMC VII, p. 918: IC.29952; p. 943: IB.30323.
For the catalogue of his auction in 1988, see (The Hague, KB, Verz. Cat. 27359).
Other Identifierhttp://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01881972
http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/provenance/record/4003?concise=no&calling_page=browse
Activity
Start (year)1740
End (year)1816
MARC Area Codee-uk-en
PlaceThenford (Geonames Id: 7296731)
Profession / Type of InstitutionScholar
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
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