Foyle’s huge private book collection up for auction

Don\’t you wish you had the money to acquire this extraordinary collection? Read about it here. From Yahoo UK.




One of the largest British book collections in private hands, comprising more than 4,000 volumes and with works by Shakespeare, Chaucer and Dickens, is to go to auction from July 11-13, Christie\’s has said.




The private library of William Foyle, the founder of London\’s famous Foyles bookstore who died in 1963, is expected to realise more than six million pounds, the auctioneers said.