Longmans (1815), £28. Sotheby’s (March 1817), £6, 16s. G. Daniel, £38, 10s. The first editions of Milton’s works have greatly increased in price. Not many years ago a copy of the first edition of the “Paradise Lost” could be obtained for about five pounds, but now a good copy is worth at least four times as much. The prices vary considerably with the date of the title-page, of which there are several issues. G. Daniel’s fine copy sold in 1864 for £28, 10s. Milton’s _Maske_ (_Comus_), 1637. Loscombe, £25. G. Daniel, £36. ---- _Poems_, 1645, first edition, with portrait by Marshall. G. Daniel, £5, 15s. _Rare Books and MSS._ (Sotheby, March 1897), fine uncut copy, £24, 10s. _Purchas his Pilgrimes_, five vols., 1625-26. Digby (1680), £3, 5s. 6d. H. Perkins, 1873, fine copy, £86. Beckford, 1883, fine copy, £63. Earl of Gosford (1884), £82 (crimson morocco). Earl of Crawford (1887), £60. Rhodes (Hugh), _Boke of Nurture_, 1577. Steevens (1800), £2, 2s. Longmans (1815), £15. Ricraft’s _Peculiar Characters of the Oriental Languages_, sm. 4to. Bindley, £19, 19s. Same copy, bound afterwards in russia extra by Lewis, who charged £1, 5s. for the binding, sold in Beckford sale (1883) for £8, 17s. 6d. Scot’s _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, 1584. Boswell, £3, 3s. Comerford (1881), £25, 10s. (citron morocco). It is interesting to notice that in the old sales of the seventeenth century the folios of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ben Jonson all sold for about the same price. Those of the first now sell for one hundred and two hundred times what they brought then, while those of the second and third do not bring ten times. Beaumont and Fletcher’s Works, 1647. Sir Edward Bysshe (1679), 13s. 6d. Smallwood (1684), 8s. A. Young and others (Puttick’s), 1875, £5. Alfred Crampton (1896), 10 guineas. Jonson’s (Ben) Works, 1640. Benj. Worsley (1678), £1, 13s. 6d. Sir Edward Bysshe (1677), £1, 10s. Lord Bateman (1896), £8, 5s. Spenser’s _Faerie Queene_, 1590-96, first edition. Sir Edward Bysshe (1679), 6s. 2d. Lloyd and Raymund (1685), 1s. Ouvry (1882), £33. Alfred Crampton (1611), 1896, with additional leaves, £85. Weever’s _Funeral Monuments_, 1631. Two copies on large paper in Beckford’s sale, part 4 (1883), olive morocco, index inlaid, £25; blue morocco, £38. Wycliffe. Mr. Addington bought at the Dix sale four unique tracts of Wycliffe for £400, and expressed his opinion that they would have been cheap at any price, but at his own sale (1886) they only realised £133--viz., Crede, &c., £37; Consolation, £27; Testament of Moyses, £36; Small Prayers to Common People, £33. _Americana_ is a class of book which has grown enormously in price. Anything published in America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries now fetches a price.