Prices of Books: An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different PeriodsWheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin)
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Prices of Books: An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods
Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin)
Books -- Prices -- History
The only known copy was bought for the British Museum at a sale
at Puttick’s in 1862 for £200. It was found in a volume of
Theological Tracts presented to the Congregational Library,
Blomfield Street, by Joshua Wilson of Tunbridge Wells in 1831.
_The Fayts of Arms_ (74).
The largest amount paid for a copy at a public sale is £336,
which the Duke of Devonshire gave for the Roxburghe copy (with
a few lines of the last leaf in facsimile).
Bryan Fairfax’s imperfect copy was bought by Francis Child for
£1, 11s. 6d. At the sale of Lord Jersey’s library in 1885 it
sold for £71.
Libri’s perfect, but mended and washed, copy, which he had
bought in very poor condition from Mario the great tenor, was
sold in 1862 to Mr. F. Huth for £255.
Mr. Corser’s perfect copy was bought in 1868 by Mr. Quaritch for
£250.
Sir W. Tite’s copy (with the first two leaves in facsimile) sold
in 1874 for £190. This copy was bought by Tite at the Rev. C.
H. Crauford’s sale in 1854 for £77. Crauford bought it at
Wilks’s sale (1847) for £54.
The Earl of Crawford’s perfect copy, with Table inlaid, sold in
1889 for £235. R. Lindsay, in Philadelphia, had this copy in his
catalogue (June 1893) for £425.
_The History of Blanchardin and Eglantine_ (78).
The only known copy, which is imperfect, is in the Althorpe
library. This copy was bought at Ratcliffe’s sale by G. Mason
for £3, 6s.; at Mason’s sale (1799) the Duke of Roxburghe
bought it for £21. Earl Spencer gave £215, 5s. for it at the
Roxburghe sale.
_Eneydos_ (81).
R. Smith (1682), 3s. Walter Rea (1682), 1s. 6d.
F. Child gave 30s. for B. Fairfax’s perfect copy, which sold at
the Earl of Jersey’s sale (1885) for £235.
Hanrott’s imperfect copy was bought in 1833 by Lord Auckland for
£43, 1s.; at his sale two years afterwards H. Holland bought it
for £24. At Holland’s sale (1860) Mr. H. Huth bought it for £84.
Mr. Quaritch had a copy in 1875 with two leaves in facsimile,
otherwise a fine copy, which he marked £300.
_The Art and Craft to Know Well to Die_ (86).
West’s perfect copy was bought by Ratcliffe for £5, 2s. 6d.; at
Ratcliffe’s sale George III. bought it for 4 guineas.
Mr. C. Tutet’s copy was bought in 1786 by Payne for 2 guineas;
probably this is the perfect copy which Payne sold to the
National Library, Paris, for 10 guineas.
_The Chastising of God’s Children_ (90).
R. Smith (1682). 5s. Dr. Bernard (1698), 1s. 10d. Osborne
(1751), 15s.
The Roxburghe copy (perfect) was bought by Lord Spencer for
£140.
The Earl of Aylesford bought the Marquis of Blandford’s copy
(bound with “Treatise of Love,” No. 91) for £32, 10s., and at
his sale in 1888 it realised £305. F. Perkins (1889), £100.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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