How to Pronounce R. B. Freeman
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Apr 01, 1915 Died on 01 Sep 1986 (aged 71)
British bibliographer
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About R. B. Freeman
- Richard Broke Freeman (1 April 1915 – 1 September 1986) was a zoologist, historian of zoology, bibliographer of natural history and book collector.
- Known professionally as R.
- B.
- Freeman, he compiled comprehensive reference works on Charles Darwin and on P.
- H.
- Gosse.
- He was “a meticulous scholar” and a “brilliant bibliographer” who showed “a genuine modesty about his great erudition.” "It is darkly rumored among antiquarian booksellers that R.
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- Freeman once missed a completely unrecorded and absurdly rare 1859 second issue of the first edition of The Origin of Species", a reviewer wrote in the Times Literary Supplement, "but this is also said to be the only mistake he has made during a lifetime of persistent scholarship and imaginative detective work in libraries, bookshops, sale-rooms, the attics of country houses and the trunks of the great-aunts of great men."
