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  1. Michael Sadleir (25 December 1888 – 13 December 1957 [2]), born Michael Thomas Harvey Sadler, was a British publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer. Biography. Bookplate of Michael Sadleir. Michael Sadleir's grave and memorial at Bisley Burial Ground, Bisley, Gloucestershire, England.

  2. Michael Sadleir (née Michael Thomas Harvey Sadler) was an English bibliographer, biographer, novelist, and preeminent book collector of nineteenth century fiction and non-fiction.

  3. Michael Sadler (as he was still known) began collecting books while an undergraduate. His Þrst passion was for Òdeca-dentÓ and symbolist writers of the 1890s.

  4. Sep 1, 2001 · Sadleir was a man of letters, a publisher (with the London firm Constable), a best-selling novelist (most memorably the author of Fanny by Gaslight (1940), a biographer (of Edward...

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    Mr. Sadleir's initial collecting passion was for the French symbolists and decadent writers and for first editions of modern English authors. The influence of this enthusiasm may be seen in his early novels.

  6. Yorkshire-born educationalist and collector. Established extension lectures at Oxford; 1895 to work in Department of Education; 1911 vice-chancellor of Leeds (in India 1917-9); 1923 Master of University College, Oxford; retired 1934. Patron of many contemporary artists; father of Michael Sadleir (qv, who changed the spelling of his name to ...

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  8. Apr 17, 2024 · The Sadleir Collection is generally regarded to be the world’s finest collection of 19th-century British fiction, assembled by the scholar, collector, connoisseur and bibliomaniac Michael Sadleir (1888-1957).

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