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)
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Bible:
‘Biblia Sacra Latina,’ Gutenberg & Fust, price of, 182
‘Biblia Sacra Latina,’ Fust & Schoeffer, price of, 182
Latin version of the Psalms, Fust & Schoeffer (1459), price of, 182
‘Biblia Latina,’ N. Jensen, 183
In English, by Coverdale (1535), 183
Tyndale’s New Testament (1526), 183
Complutensian Polyglot (1514-17), 142, 183
Plantin Polyglot, 184
Walton’s Polyglot, 185
(Alcuin’s), at the British Museum, 74
(Eliot), 222
Bindings, sale of, 111;
specimens of, 250-255
Bindley (James), his library, 157, 175;
his portraits, &c., 158
Blake’s poems, 256
Blew (Rev. W. J.), his library, 174
Block books, price of, 181
Blomefield’s ‘Norfolk,’ 245
Boccaccio, 190;
Valdarfer edition (1471), 154
Boece’s ‘Cronikles,’ translated by Bellenden, on vellum, 248
Bohn (Henry G.), bookseller, 35;
sale of his ‘Epoch,’ 176
Bolland (Baron), his library, 162
Book-collecting as an investment, 19
Book sales in the nineteenth century which have realised
over £10,000, 175
Book trade _circa_ 1525, 85
Books:
Imported into England, 81
Not to be sold at too high a price, 82
Sellers of, 26-48
Borromeo (Count), his library, 157
Botticelli’s drawings in illustration of Dante, 69
Boucher (Rev. Jonathan), his library, 151
Boyet, specimens of his binding, 253
Brabourne (Lord), his library, 173
Bradshaw (Henry), ‘St. Werburghe’ (1521), 216
Bradshaw (Henry), Notes on Dorne’s Day-Book, 84
Brand (Rev. John), his library, 151
Bridges (John), sale of his library, 111
Bright (B. H.), his library, 163
British Museum:
Library of the kings and queens of England, 6
Manuscript collections at, 67
Britton (Thomas), sale of his books, 128
Broadley (John), his library, 160
Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre,’ 262
Browne (Sir Thomas) on the increase of books, 10
Browning’s (Robert) ‘Pauline,’ 256
Bruno (Giordano), ‘Spaccio de la Bestia Trionfante,’ 241
Brydges (Sir Egerton), his list of book prices (1564), 88
Buccleuch (Duke of), his library, 172
Buckingham (Duke of), Stowe library, 163, 175;
MSS., 163
Buckley (Rev. W. E.), his library, 173
Bullord (John), auctioneer, 44, 121;
confused with Ballard by Nichols, 44
Bunbury (Sir E. H.), his library, 174
Burgess (Fred), his library, 173
Burney (Dr. Charles), purchase of his library for the British Museum, 67
Burns, Kilmarnock edition of his Poems (1786), 257
Burton (J. Hill) on collecting as an investment, 19
Bury (Richard de) and his ‘Philobiblon,’ 2-5
Bute’s (Earl of) botanical library, 144
Butler’s ‘Hudibras,’ published price, 98
Byron’s Poems, 258
Bysshe (Sir Edward), sale of his library, 111
Byzantine historians, 262
‘Cæsar,’ edited by Dr. Samuel Clarke, large paper, fall in price, 181
Campbell’s (Colin) ‘Vitruvius Britannicus,’ published price, 95
Canevari (Demetrio), specimen of binding from his library, 252
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