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
Macready (W. C.), his library, 165
Madan (Falconer):
Account of the Thomason Civil War Tracts, 6
Account of an historical mass-book, purchased for the Bodleian
Library at a cheap price, 76
His edition of Dorne’s Day-Book, 84
On cost of MSS., 59
On collections of MSS., 67 (_note_)
Madox’s (Thomas) ‘History of the Exchequer,’ 14
Maitland (Dr. S. R.) on prices of books in the Middle Ages, 53, 58
Maittaire (Michael), sale of his library, 132
Malmesbury MSS. destroyed, 54
Malone (Edmond), his library, 157
Manton (Thomas), sale of his library, 108
Manuscript books, prices of, 49-78
Manuscripts in public libraries, 67 (_note_)
Marche (Richard du), illuminator, 57
Margaret (St.) of Scotland, her historical mass-book, 77
Marguerite de Montmorency, specimen of binding from her library, 252
Marguerite de Valois, specimen of binding from her library, 251
Marshall (Frank), his library, 172
Martialis (1471), 188;
‘Apud Vindelinum Spirensem,’ sold in Maittaire’s library, 134;
original MS. copies of epigrams, sold for 3s. 6d., 1
Mason (George), his library, 145
Maunsell’s (Andrew) Catalogue of English Books, 90
Mead (Richard, M.D.), sale of his library, 134, 139
Meredith’s (George) Poems, 258
Merly library, 155, 175
Mezeray, ‘Histoire de France,’ 262
Middleton (Prof. J. H.) on MSS., 51, 58, 61, 63, 78
Millington (Edward), auctioneer, 37, 113, 117;
elegy, 40
Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost,’ 219;
published price, 96;
‘Comus,’ 220;
Poems, 220
Minsheu’s Dictionary, published by subscription, 100
Molière’s Works, published price, 99
Monasteries as producers of books, 2
Money, change in the value of, as a factor in the prices
of books, 50, 63
Monnier, specimens of his binding, 254
Moore’s (Bishop) library, 10;
epigrams on its presentation to Cambridge University, 11
Moore’s (Thomas) Poems, profitable sale, 96
More (Sir William) of Loseley, his library, 87
Morris’s (William) Kelmscott Press publications, 247, 258;
his collection of illuminated MSS., 73
Nassau (George), his library, 158
Niccolo Niccoli, book collector, 64
Nicholl (J. B.), his library, 165
Nichols’s ‘Leicestershire,’ 245
Nicol (George), bookseller, 34
Noailles (Comte de), his library, 161
North (John), his library, 158, 175
Ogilby’s (John) lottery of books, 94
Oliver (Mrs. Elizabeth), sale of her library, 119
Omar Khayyam, translated by Fitzgerald, 103
Orford (Earl of), his library, 174
Ormerod’s ‘Cheshire,’ 246
Osborne (Thomas), bookseller, 13
Purchase of the Harley library, 30
Charge of over-pricing the books unjust, 32
Ouvry (Frederick), his library, 169
Ovidius, 188
Oxford, book-sales at, 38
Paine (Cornelius), his library, 172
Paper, deterioration of, 24
Papillon’s (David) purchase of books, 13
Paris de Meyzieux, sale of his library, 142
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