Book-Prices Current, Vol. 17
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Book-Prices Current, Vol. 17: A Record of the Prices at Which Books Have Been Sold at Auction A Careful analysis of the Sales reported in this volume would emphasise more forcibly than ever the demand that exists for what may be described as the Old English Classics, and for those comparatively modern works which will in all probability take rank with them in course of time. The high prices frequently realised for rare books of this class are invariably reported in the daily press, and the publicity thus given accounts, no doubt, for the large numbers that even yet find their way to the auction rooms. Not without reason did the auctioneers say that the undescribed work of Alexander Gallus, printed by Pynson in 1492, which will be found reported on page 479 as having realised £320, might "for the present, at least," be regarded as unique. This book had rested, practically unknown, for nearly three hundred and fifty years on the library shelves of Appleby Grammar School, and is the type of other books, perhaps of other copies of the same book, which will, if experience be any guide in these matters, assuredly emerge from the obscurity into which they have fallen. The same remarks apply to well-known books which for one reason or another lie hidden away, and, strange as it may appear, are only remembered when a record price is obtained, and proclaimed abroad as evidence of the increasing value of works which at one time excited comparatively little interest. One would have thought, for example, that all the early editions of Shakespeare´s Plays, including the first four folios, would have been ear-marked and secured long ago, but this would not appear to be the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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