eth Margaret, daughter of Mr. Philip
Fonnereau, by whom he had a large family. Mr. Hibbert died on the 8th of
October 1837, at Munden House, near Watford, Hertfordshire, and was
buried in the churchyard of Aldenham, in the same county.

Mr. Hibbert, who was the 'Honorio' of Dibdin's _Bibliographical
Decameron_, was a patron of art, and an enthusiastic collector of books,
pictures, and prints and drawings. He formed a splendid library at his
houses at Clapham, and in Portland Place, London, which is believed to
have cost him at least thirty-five thousand pounds. It contained a
large number of early printed Bibles, and was particularly rich in rare
editions of the French Romances, and of English and Italian Poetry. No
fewer than eighty of the books were printed on vellum. The collection
also comprised twenty-five manuscripts.

When, in 1829, Mr. Hibbert retired to his estate of Munden, which had
been bequeathed to him by Mr. Roger Parker, an uncle of his wife, he
found that the size of his new residence rendered it necessary that he
should dispose of the greater part of his collections, and his library
was sold by auction by Mr. Evans at 93 Pall Mall in three divisions. The
sales occupied altogether forty-two days. The first commenced on the
16th of March, and the last on the 25th of May 1829. There were eight
thousand seven hundred and ninety-four lots, representing about twenty
thousand volumes; and the total amount realised was twenty-one thousand
seven hundred and fifty-three pounds, nine shillings. The books sold for
comparatively small sums. A copy of the sale catalogue, with the prices
obtained for the books and the names of the purchasers, is preserved in
the library of the British Museum.

The following are a few of the principal books in this magnificent
collection, together with the prices they fetched at the sale:--

The Gutenberg Bible, two hundred and fifteen pounds.

The Mentz Psalter of 1459, ninety pounds, six shillings.

The Latin Bible printed by Fust and Schoeffer at Mentz in 1462, one
hundred and twenty-eight pounds, two shillings.

The Latin Bible, printed at Paris in 1476, thirty-two pounds, eleven
shillings.

The Latin Bible, printed by Jenson at Venice in 1479. A very fine copy,
which formerly belonged to Pope Sixtus IV., ninety-eight pounds,
fourteen shillings.

The Complutensian Polyglot Bible, said to have been Cardinal Ximenes's
own copy, for which Mr. Hibbert gave sixteen thousand o