Fales, DeCoursey, 1888-1966
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Banker, art collector; New York City.
De Coursey Fales (1888-1966) was a New York City lawyer and banker who collected books and manuscripts. He donated his book collection to New York University and split his manuscript gifts between N.Y.U. and the New York Public Library.
De Coursey Fales (1888-1966) was a lawyer, banker, collector, bibliophile and yachtsman. In the last years of his life, Fales devoted himself full-time to collecting. Fales' collecting started with Walter Scott materials, and around that core, his collection grew to around 50,000 items pertaining to various authors spanning the 18th and 20th centuries. He began donating parts of that collection to New York University in 1957, and portions of his collection were also donated to the New York Public Library, Manhattan College, and the Morgan Library (of which he was a life fellow).
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Albany (N.Y.)
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