Henry Howard Harper (1871–1953) was an American writer, publisher, and book collector, based largely in Boston and New York. In 1901 he co-founded the Bibliophile Society of Boston, alongside figures such as Nathan Haskell Dole, and served as its first and only treasurer from its founding until its dissolution in the late 1930s. The society specialized in producing small, privately printed limited editions for its subscriber-members, and Harper was the driving force behind many of these projects, including editions of The Letters of Charles Lamb (1905), Byron's Malach Hamoves (1918), and Letters of Mary W. Shelley (1918). As an author he wrote eight novels along with a collection of essays, The Tides of Fate. His nonfiction includes Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs, and Book Clubs (1904, privately printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge) and Highlights of Foreign Travel: A Memorable Journey to Palestine, Egypt, Italy, and the Battle Front of France, illustrated by Haydon Jones. He also published an autobiography, Bob Hardwick (1911; republished 1933). With his wife, Marguerite Rogers Young, he assembled one of the largest private collections of Charles Dickens material of the period, and the couple co-wrote Romantic Mr. Dickens: A Comedy-Drama in Three Acts (Torch Press, 1941). He lived for a period in New York as an adult before his long association with Boston's literary and bibliophile circles.
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