Milton’s Maske (Comus), 1637.
Loscombe, £25. G. Daniel, £36.
—— Poems, 1645, first edition, with portrait by Marshall.
G. Daniel, £5, 15s. Rare Books and MSS. (Sotheby, March 1897), fine uncut copy, £24, 10s.
Purchas his Pilgrimes, five vols., 1625-26.
Digby (1680), £3, 5s. 6d. H. Perkins, 1873, fine copy, £86. Beckford, 1883, fine copy, £63. Earl of Gosford (1884), £82 (crimson morocco). Earl of Crawford (1887), £60.
Rhodes (Hugh), Boke of Nurture, 1577.
Steevens (1800), £2, 2s. Longmans (1815), £15.
Ricraft’s Peculiar Characters of the Oriental Languages, sm. 4to.
Bindley, £19, 19s. Same copy, bound afterwards in russia extra by Lewis, who charged £1, 5s. for the binding, sold in Beckford sale (1883) for £8, 17s. 6d.
Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584.
Boswell, £3, 3s. Comerford (1881), £25, 10s. (citron morocco).
It is interesting to notice that in the old sales of the seventeenth century the folios of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ben Jonson all sold for about the same price. Those of the first now sell for one hundred and two hundred times what they brought then, while those of the second and third do not bring ten times.