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W.豪(W. T. H. Howe,1868-1939 年)是图书收藏黄金时代最杰出的图书收藏家和文学赞助人之一,但他的努力在很大程度上被人们遗忘了。这篇文章致力于纠正这种疏忽,提供有关豪的生平信息,并将他归入同时期美国图书收藏家的行列。巴顿-库里(Barton Currie)和理查德-库尔(Richard Curle)等藏家称赞他在 1924 年著名的维克曼拍卖会上购买坡和霍桑作品的远见卓识;后来,他又大手笔购买了刘易斯-卡罗尔的初版作品,这使他成为 1932 年纽约 "爱丽丝 "展览的主要贡献者。豪积累了大量的文学手稿和珍本,他把它们收藏在辛辛那提,并在那里担任世界上最大的教科书出版商美国图书公司的总裁。豪与芝加哥的沃尔特-希尔(Walter Hill)和纽约的阿尔弗雷德-戈德史密斯(Alfred Goldsmith)等珍本书商交好,他塑造了以十九世纪和当代作家为重点的收藏趋势。当豪在没有留下遗嘱的情况下突然去世时,他的藏书被计划拍卖,但书商米切尔-肯纳利(Mitchell Kennerley)与阿尔弗雷德-伯格(Alfred Berg)撮合了一笔交易,后者将图书馆全部买下,并捐赠给了纽约公共图书馆。具有讽刺意味的是,这虽然完整地保存了豪的藏书,但却掩盖了他在奠定今天伯格藏书基础中的作用。
“Only Death Put an End to Mr. Howe’s Collecting”: The Bibliophile behind Nearly Half of the Berg Collection
W. T. H. Howe (1868–1939) was one of the most prominent book collectors and literary patrons of the Golden Era of book collecting, yet his efforts have been largely forgotten. This piece strives to correct that oversight, providing information about Howe’s life and situating him among American book collectors of his period. Fellow collectors such as Barton Currie and Richard Curle lauded his foresighted purchases of Poe and Hawthorne works at the famous Wakeman sale of 1924; later he made splashy purchases of Lewis Carroll first editions that positioned him as a major contributor to the 1932 New York “Alice” exhibition. Howe accumulated a huge treasure trove of literary manuscripts and rare books that he kept in Cincinnati, where he was president of the world’s largest textbook publisher, the American Book Company. Friends with rare booksellers such as Walter Hill of Chicago and Alfred Goldsmith of New York, Howe shaped collecting trends to emphasize nineteenth-century and contemporary writers. When Howe died suddenly without a will, his collection was slated for auction, but bookman Mitchell Kennerley brokered a deal with Alfred Berg, who purchased the library en bloc and donated it to the New York Public Library. Ironically, this saved Howe’s collection intact, but obscured his role in building the foundation of today’s Berg Collection.