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Frederick Richmond Goff

(Goff, Frederick Richmond, 1916-1982)

Frederick Goff, Chief of the Rare Book Division of the Library of Congress, and Gladys Harris examining two books from the division's collection. The books are a first edition of the King James version of the Bible, which was published in London in 1611, and Guillaume Duraudus' Speculum Judiciale, which was published in Venice in 1488.

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Frederick Richmond Goff (April 23, 1916 – September 26, 1982) was an American rare book librarian and specialist in incunabula. (From Wikipedia)

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Associated author:

Kennett, White, 1660-1728

Books by Frederick Richmond Goff:

Goff, Frederick Richmond, 1916-1982, contrib.: The Primordia of Bishop White Kennett: The First English Bibliography on America (originally published 1713; this edition Washington: Pan American Union, 1959), by White Kennett (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by Frederick Richmond Goff in the extended shelves:

Goff, Frederick Richmond, 1916-1982: A catalog of important recent additions to the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection selected for exhibition at the Library of Congress, June 1947. ([U. S. Govt, Print. Off.], 1947), also by Library of Congress and Lessing J. Rosenwald (page images at HathiTrust)
Goff, Frederick Richmond, 1916-1982: Early printed books of the Low Countries, from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection; an exhibition in the Library of Congress, April 2, 1958 to August 31, 1958 (Washington, 1958), also by Library of Congress and Lessing J. Rosenwald (page images at HathiTrust)
Goff, Frederick Richmond, 1916-1982: The John Dunlap broadside : the first printing of the Declaration of Independence (Library of Congress, 1976), also by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

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