Prices of Books An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods
by Henry B. Wheatley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917
- Credits
- Produced by Irma Špehar, Jennifer Linklater and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Books -- Prices -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 40815
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40815
- Release Date
- September 22, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PRICES OF BOOKS AN INQUIRY INTO THE CHANGES IN THE PRICE OF BOOKS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN ENGLAND AT DIFFERENT PERIODS BY HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.
- 2.EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- 6.CHAPTER II SELLERS OF BOOKS — AUCTIONEERS
- 7.CHAPTER III PRICES OF MANUSCRIPT BOOKS
- 8.CHAPTER IV PUBLISHED PRICES — FOLIOS — QUARTOS — OCTAVOS — DUODECIMOS
- 9.CHAPTER V AUCTION SALES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- 10.CHAPTER VI AUCTION SALES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- 11.CHAPTER VII AUCTION SALES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 12.CHAPTER VIII PRICES OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS — Editiones Principes of the Classics — Italian Classics
- 13.CHAPTER IX PRICES OF EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE
- 14.CHAPTER X PRICES OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS — SECOND FOLIO, 1632. — THIRD FOLIO, 1664 (some copies dated 1663). — FOURTH FOLIO, 1685. — SEPARATE PLAYS.
- 15.CHAPTER XI PRICES OF VARIOUS CLASSES OF BOOKS — BOOKS ON VELLUM — ILLUSTRATED BOOKS — BINDINGS — EARLY EDITIONS OF MODERN AUTHORS
- 16.INDEX
- 17.FOOTNOTES:
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