Prices of Books An Inquiry Into the Changes in the Price of Books Which Have Oc
Prices of Books An Inquiry Into the Changes in the Price of Books Which Have Oc
Wheatley Henry Benjamin
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Among them was the second Shakespeare folio, now in the possession of Sir Henry Irving. In 1785 Dr. Askew's collection of manuscripts were sold, ten years after the printed books, when they realised ^1827. When Askew died in 1774 they were offered to a collector for two thousand guineas, but the price was considered too large. 142 PRICES OF BOOKS The library of Major Thomas Pearson (1740- 1781) was sold by T. & J. Egerton in 1788. The sale extended over twenty-three days, and consisted f 55 2 5... lt s ' This library was very rich in old English literature, and contained two volumes of original ballads, which were bought by the Duke of Roxburghe for . 36, 43. 6d. , and with the Duke's additions are now safely preserved in the British Museum. The famous Pinelli library, founded by John Vincent Pinelli in the sixteenth century, and aug- mented by his descendants (the last possessor was Maffeo Pinelli, a learned printer at Venice, who died in 1785), was bought in 1788 by Messrs. Rob- son & Edwards, booksellers, for about ^7000 ; and on being brought to London was sold by auction in Conduit Street in two divisions the first, in March and April 1789, consisted of sixty days' sale, and the second, in February and March 1790, of thirty-one days.
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