BERNARD QUARITCH


sagte einst zu Henry Bohn in London:

Mr. Bohn Sie sind der größte Buchhändler in England.

Ich werde der größte Buchhändler in Europa...

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BERNARD ALEXANDER CHRISTIAN  QUARITCH

1819-1899


Bernard Quaritch later recalled saying to his employer 

“Mr Bohn, you are the first bookseller in England, I mean to become the first bookseller in Europe’.

 Bohn’s answer is not recorded, but Mrs Bohn, already impressed by Quaritch’s diligence, replied “I believe you will’. 

She was to be proved right. With modest capital, 

Quaritch set up on his own in October 1847. The same month he issued a catalogue, the first of a series that now numbers over fourteen hundred.