BOHLER

John . b. South Wing field near Alfreton, Derby shire 31 Dec. 1797; a stocking weaver; collector of medicinal plants for the doctors; an expert field botanist and microscopist; explored Snowdon and adjacent mountains about 1860; a great collector of rare fungi and other curious plants; published Lichenes Britannici or specimens of the Lichens of Britain 16 monthly parts 1835–7; author of A Flora of Roche Abbey in Aveling’s Roche Abbey Yorkshire 1870; The Flora of Sherwood Forest in R. White’s Worksop, the Dukeries and Sherwood Forest 1875. d. Sheffield 24 Sep. 1872. Reliquary xi , 212–13 (1871); R. White’s Worksop (1875) 303–26. BOHN, Henry George ( eld. son of John Henry Martin Bohn of Soho, London, bookbinder 1758–1843 ). b. 4 Jany. 1796; a isted his father; bookseller at 4 York st. Covent Garden 1831; brought out A Catalogue of books 1841 containing 1948 pages and 23208 articles; built up a trade in remainder books in which he had no rival; published Standard library 1845, Scientific and antiquarian 1847, Cla ical 1848, Illustrated 1849, Shilling series 1850, Ecclesiastical 1851, Philological 1852 and British cla ics 1853, the whole numbering 617 volumes some of which he compiled and edited; author of A dictionary of quotations from the English poets 1882; published The bibliographer’s manual of English literature by W. T. Lowndes, new ed. revised, corrected and enlarged by H. G. Bohn 4 vols. 1864; sold his Libraries to Bell and Daldy in 1864 for about £40,000 and his copyrights and plates to Chatto and Windus in Dec. 1874 for £20,000; his art collections were sold for £45,000 1875–78 and March 1885. d. North end house, Twickenham 22 Aug. 1884. Bookseller Sep. 1884 pp. 907–909.