“This was the first old book I ever acquired. I bought it from Edgar H. Wells late in 1925 or early in 1926, and was up half the night read­ing and exam­in­ing it. I did not know then that I had found the road to the most endur­ing friend­ships and the great­est plea­sures of my life. R.H.T. Mar. 16, 1977.“
❧ Inscribed on front free end­pa­per of first vol­ume of: Samuel John­son. The Lives of the Most Emi­nent Eng­lish Poets: With Crit­i­cal Obser­va­tions on their Works. A New Edi­tion Cor­rected. (Lon­don, 1794) Call num­ber: RHT 18th-321.
❧ Robert H. Tay­lor (1908–1985) made this pur­chase dur­ing months prior to enter­ing Prince­ton with the class of 1930. His col­lec­tion was deposited in Fire­stone Library in 1972 and was received as a bequest in 1985. A link to more about his col­lec­tion.