George Livermore (July 10, 1809 – August 30, 1865) was an American antiquarian, bibliographer, and historian, known chiefly as a book collector.

Livermore owned twenty-six volumes (almost a complete set) of the Massachusetts Historical Society's Collections.

Harvard College awarded Livermore an honorary Master of Arts, although he dropped out of school at the age of fourteen.

[6] In the spring of 1831, the owner of the dry-goods store offered Livermore a two-year lease to operate the business on his own.

[10] By 1841 he owned twenty-six volumes (almost a complete set) of the Massachusetts Historical Society's Collections and John Winthrop's "History of New England".

In 1855 he created at his expense for private distribution a work titled A Tribute to the Memory of James Johnson, a Merchant of the Old School.

[10] In 1851, Livermore wrote an article for the Cambridge Chronicle entitled John Wycliffe and the first English Bible which historian Charles Deane praised as an outstanding work of research.

[14] In August 1862 Livermore wrote a historical research pamphlet on the opinions of the Founding Fathers of the United States of Negroes as slaves and as free citizens.

[10] Charles Sumner, the Republican senator from Massachusetts, presented Abraham Lincoln with a copy of Livermore's pamphlet in November 1862.

Livermore's research goes into detail as to attitudes of the country's Founding Fathers as to slavery showing that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and the colonial principal leaders opposing the concept.

[18] Another example of a rare Bible he purchased was a 1478 Venice edition of the Latin Vulgate, once owned by Pope Pius VI (with his coat of arms on the cover).

[20] A single leaf on vellum of the 1455 Gutenberg Bible that Livermore owned was sold out of his library in 1894 for $95 (equivalent to $3,345 in 2023).

[25] Harvard College awarded Livermore an honorary Master of Arts in 1850 and at that time he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa society.

[10] Anna Morton Waterston, reporter for the Atlantic Monthly, wrote a memorial article in November 1865 titled "The Visible and Invisible in Libraries" on the death of Livermore.

Waterston described his life as a book written with good deeds and pure thoughts and illuminated by specially recognized aspirations.