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Irwin, Theodore (American businessman and collector, 1827-1902)
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Note: Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), an agribusiness millionaire in Oswego, New York. Here, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, Irwin built his fortune, first by investing in flour mills and grain processing ventures, then by redirecting his efforts toward manufacturing, banking, transportation, and utilities. His fully diversified business career gave him the means to construct an elegant mansion downtown and to fill it with works of art and rare books, which he began to collect in 1853. He succeeded in obtaining most of the highspots fashionable at that time Shakespeare folios, Caxtons, incunabula, Americana, and extra-illustrated books, including a Bible extended to sixty volumes with more than thirty thousand prints and original drawings, "possibly the largest Bible in the world." He bought a number of manuscripts from Quaritch..." his library was bought by J.P. Morgan
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