Paul Quarrie

Continental Books & Illuminations

Paul Rogan Quarrie FSA is at eighty the oldest staff member. He has been with Maggs since 2004 and specialises in early continental material in many European languages ancient and modern (not Slavonic or Scandinavian). Previously he was a rare books librarian (for 18 years at Eton College), a lecturer (part-time) at UCL, and for some years a senior director of the Book Department at Sotheby's working out of London and Paris and occasionally in the USA. He is chiefly in that role to be identified with the dispersal of the celebrated library of the earls of Macclesfield over a number of years both by private treaty sale and at auction. He has put on various exhibitions, in 1990 one at the Pierpont Morgan Library (Treasures of Eton College Library) and has lectured  and continues to do so in various places in GB, Europe and the USA.

He has also worked at Winchester College (2010-2011) on an exhibition to commemorate its involvement in the creation of the King James Bible of 1611 for which he wrote the catalogue. He has contributed to various published works including the first volume of the history of the Oxford University Press and has edited two small anthologies of translations from Horace (2016) and from Greek poetry (2020) with Everyman.

PQ@maggs.com