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
Boswell, £2, 1s. Roxburghe, £3, 3s. Duke of Grafton, £4, 8s.
Dent, £4, 10s. Heber (Part 4, fine), £7--bought by Daniel; sold
at his sale for £36--bought by Lilly. Gardner (1854), £12, 15s.
Sotheby, 1857 (Berry), £21. F. Perkins (1889), £61 (three
headlines shaved).
_Much Ado about Nothing_ (V. S. for A. Wise and W. Apsley), 1600.
Smyth (1797), £7, 10s. Steevens, £2, 12s. 6d. Roxburghe, £2,
17s. Broadley (1832), £2, 19s. Bindley, £17, 17s.
Heber, Part 2 (finest copy known, with rough edges), £18--bought
by Daniel; sold at his sale (1864) for 255 guineas--Toovey.
Halliwell (1857), £65--bought by Mr. Huth. Halliwell Phillipps
(1889), £50 (several leaves in facsimile). F. Perkins (1889),
£75 (headlines cut into). Thomas Gaisford (1890), £130.
_Othello_ (N. O. for T. Walkley), 1622.
Steevens (with MS. notes), £29, 8s. Gilchrist, £19, 10s. Dent,
£22. Bindley, £56, 14s.; resold Heber (Part 2), for £28; bought
by Daniel; sold at his sale for £155 to Lilly. William Combes
(1837), £15, 5s. F. Perkins (1889), £130.
_Pericles_ (H. Gosson), 1609.
Steevens, £1, 2s. Roxburghe, £1, 15s.
Heber, Part 2, £18--bought by Daniel; sold at his sale for £84.
F. Perkins, 1889 (Steevens’s copy, with his autograph), £60.
Halliwell Phillipps (1889), £30 (title reprinted, and two leaves
wanting).
J. T. Frere, 1896, £171.
_Richard II._ (Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wise), 1597.
Daniel’s was the first copy brought to auction. Bought by Lilly
(1864) for 325 guineas.
---- (Val. Simmes for Andrew Wise), 1598.
Steevens, £4, 14s. 6d. Roxburghe, £7, 7s. White Knights, £10.
Heber, £4, 14s. 6d. Bright (1845), £13, 10s. Daniel (1864), 103
guineas--Halliwell.
_Richard III._ (Valentine Sims for Andrew Wise), 1597.
Nixon (1818), £33; resold to Heber. Heber (Part 2), £41, 9s.
6d.; bought by Daniel; sold at his sale for 335 guineas to
Lilly.
_Romeo and Juliet_ (John Danter), 1597.
Heber, Part 2 (wanting title, and cut into the text), £1, 1s.
Kemble gave Stace the bookseller £30 for his copy, now in the
library of the Duke of Devonshire.
_Romeo and Juliet_, second or first complete edition (T. Crede for
C. Burby), 1599.
Steevens, £6. Roxburghe, £7, 10s. White Knights, £10, 10s.
Heber, £5, 15s. 6d. Daniel, £52, 10s. F. Perkins (1889), £164
(headlines cut into, and title mounted).
_Taming of the Shrew_, _Tempest_, _Timon of Athens_, first editions
in folio.
_Titus Andronicus_ (Edward White), 1611.
Daniel (1864), £31, 10s.
F. Perkins (1889), £35 (margin of title repaired).
_Troilus and Cressida_ (G. Eld for R. Bonian & H. Walley), 1609.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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