Hill in Surrey,
where he 'learned Greek, Latin, and French (Spanish was his
mother-tongue), and had also got well on with Hindustani, Persian, and
Arabic'; but in 1833, the East India Company having lost their Charter,
his father removed him from the school and took him into his business.
Office-work proving distasteful to him, he travelled for some years on
the Continent and in America, rejoining his father's firm as partner in
1849. From his early years Mr. Henry Huth had been a collector of books,
and on his return home he set energetically to work to form that
splendid library which ranks among the finest in England, and which has
been carefully preserved and augmented by his son, Mr. Alfred Henry
Huth. Mr. Henry Huth gave commissions at most of the important
book-sales, and we are told that 'he called daily at all the principal
booksellers on his way back from the city, a habit which he continued up
to the day of his death.' He was a member of the Philobiblon Society,
and in 1867 printed for presentation to the members a volume of _Ancient
Ballads and Broadsides published in England in the Sixteenth Century_,
reprinted from the unique original copies he had bought at the Daniel
sale. He was also a member of the Roxburghe Club. Mr. Huth died on the
10th of December 1878, and was buried in the churchyard of Bolney, in
Sussex. He married Augusta Louisa Sophia, third daughter of Frederick
Westenholz of Waldenstein Castle, in Austria, by whom he had three sons
and three daughters.

Among the treasures in Mr. Huth's library are block-books of the _Ars
Moriendi_, _Ars Memorandi_, and the _Apocalypse_; the superb copy of the
Gutenberg Bible which was formerly in the libraries of Sir M. Masterman
Sykes and Mr. Henry Perkins; two copies of the Fust and Schoeffer Bible
of 1462, one on vellum; and a particularly fine copy of St. Augustine's
_De Civitate Dei_, printed at Rome in 1468. The collection also
comprises several of the pre-Reformation German Bibles; the first
edition of Luther's Bible; the Coverdale Bible of 1535, and the
Icelandic Bible printed at Holum in 1584; together with upwards of one
hundred other Bibles, a large number of New Testaments, and various
portions of the Scriptures in all languages.

In books from the presses of Caxton and other early English printers the
library is remarkably rich. It contains no less than twelve Caxtons;
about fifty Wynkyn de Wordes, of which several are unique; sixteen
Pynsons