e/Roxburghe Club

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has glosseng: The Roxburghe Club was formed on 17 June 1812 by leading bibliophiles, at the time the library of the Duke of Roxburghe was auctioned. It took 45 days to sell the entire collection. The first edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, printed by Chrisopher Valdarfer of Venice in 1471, was sold to the Marquis of Blandford for £2,260, the highest price ever given for a book at that time. The Marquis already had another copy, but lacking 5 of the pages.
lexicalizationeng: Roxburghe Club
instance ofc/Clubs and societies in the United Kingdom
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has glossdeu: Der Roxburghe Club ist eine britische Vereinigung von Sammlern und Bibliophilen.
lexicalizationdeu: Roxburghe Club

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