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Robert Hoe III was born on 10 March 1839, in New York, United States. He was the son of Robert Hoe II, a manufacturer, and Thirza Mead Hoe.
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Robert Hoe III was born on 10 March 1839, in New York, United States. He was the son of Robert Hoe II, a manufacturer, and Thirza Mead Hoe.
As a young man, Hoe had been partially educated by private tutors in Paris.
Around the same time that Hoe entered the business, world, he also began a lifelong passion for book collecting. The experience helped him to develop an interest in literature, especially French literature, which was a love that lasted until the end of his life. His uncle, Richard, who preceded him as head of R. Hoe & Co., had also collected books on a specific topic: typography. From Richard, Hoe learned about fine printers like the nineteenth-century Englishman William Pickering, Aldus Manutius of Venice, the Elzevirs, and other early printers, all of whose works Hoe would pursue for his collection.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Hoe found a book-collecting partner in William Loring Andrews. The two would often split the costs of expensive books and later decide who would take them home. Some of the most notable volumes in Hoe’s collection came from this period, such as the first folio of William Shakespeare that was acquired and taken home by Hoe at a London sale in 1884 for $2,950. The same year he secured a circa 1505 edition of the Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci, a sixteen-leaf quarto printed in Florence. In New York, he found a 1493 printing in Rome of a letter from Christopher Columbus about his discovery of the New World.
During this era, Hoe found several keys buys for his collection from London bookseller Bernard Quaritch. Hoe bought the only known copy of Wynkyn de Worde’s English printing of Helyas, Knight of the Swan by Lohengrin. Hoe paid three thousand dollars for this rare work on vellum. In 1927, Quaritch sold him a Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum in excellent condition for $25,000. Hoe also bought his Gutenberg on paper from Quaritch. In New York, Hoe found a supplier in Frank Dodd of Dodd, Mead, and Company. From this source, he bought a 1492 copy of Polychronicon by Ranulf Higen in 1888. Hoe also acquired many works through them from the sale of Abbie Hanscom Pope’s estate, including Thomas Malory’s 1485 Morte d’Arthur, a Caxton printing of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis (circa 1483), and fifteen Shakespeare quartos. Before the end of the decade, Hoe also bought a fifteenth-century Pembroke Book of Hours and William Caxton’s first edition of The Canterbury Tales, circa 1477.
To foster his love of book collecting, Hoe helped found the Grolier Club in New York in 1884. This association of bibliophiles was named after a book lover from the French Renaissance, Jean Grolier. As the Club’s first president, Hoe gave an address to its members on a topic he found most interesting: bookbinding. His speech, A Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art, Delivered before the Grolier Club, February 26, 1885, was published by the Club in 1886. He also financed the publication of a comprehensive, two-volume work on the subject titled Historic and Artistic Book Bindings (1895), which took its illustrations from Hoe’s own collection. To foster the development of this craft in the United States, he helped start the Club Bindery, which, by the beginning of the twentieth century, was the best in the country. Many of Hoe’s own books were bound at this bindery.
Beginning in 1903, Hoe set about having a catalog of his own book collection made and privately printed. Sixteen volumes prepared by James O. Wright and Caroline Shipman Whipple divide Hoe’s massive group of books into categories like the Catologue of Books of Emblems (1908) and A Catalogue of Books by English Authors Who Lived before the Year 1700 (1903). This bibliography covers over twenty thousand volumes and does not even include Hoe’s manuscripts. The largest single section of Hoe’s library was French literature.
Books were not the only area on which Hoe’s collecting instincts were keen. Hoe edited a book about print collecting by Joseph Maberley for republication. Hoe’s version of Print Collector: An Introduction to the Knowledge Necessary for Forming a Collection of Ancient Prints was published in 1880. He also had assembled a collection of art that he lived with and was one of the founders of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the works he owned was a Rembrandt oil painting, “Young Girl Holding Out a Medal on a Chain,” two Rembrandt sketches, and Sir Godfrey Kneller’s portrait of John Dryden. Hoe died in London in 1909.
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Quotations: “This confirms in me the conviction that those who love books should have them in their custody and will take the best care of them.”
Hoe was a member of the English Bibliographical Society. Also, he was a co-founder and president of the Grolier Club from 1884 to 1888, and a member of the Societe des Amis des Livres.
Upon Robert's death Hoe stipulated that all his books and manuscripts - over thirty thousand works - should be sold at auction. His reasons for not donating them to libraries or other institutions was that upon visiting such places he had been appalled at how treasures like his were treated.
The auction of Hoe’s library, which took place at Anderson’s Auction Gallery in New York, was a major event. Hoe’s prized possessions were dispersed to such noteworthy collectors as Henry E. Huntington, J. P. Morgan, and Harry E. and Joseph E. Widener. The sales broke all American records.
On August 12, 1863, Hoe married Olivia Phelps James. The had nine children.