A prolific author and bibliographer, Henry Benjamin Wheatley
(1838-1917) wrote or edited dozens of works during a distinguished
literary career. First published in 1898 as the fourth volume in
Richard Garnett's 'Library Series', Prices of Books traces the
market value of books in England from the seventeenth century to
the late nineteenth century. Wheatley recounts the history of
booksellers, and manuscript and book pricing in England, providing
detailed analyses of significant auction sales over three
centuries. He also devotes chapters to the pricing history of
Shakespeare's works and other notable English publications. Serving
as a fascinating micro-history of England's reading and
book-collecting habits, this work will appeal to those interested
in antiquarian culture and the history of the book. Several other
works by Wheatley are also reissued in the Cambridge Library
Collection, including the delightful Literary Blunders (1893).
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