Roxburghe, £10, 15s. Same copy, Beckford (1882), £14. Colonel Stanley, £22.
Lodge’s (Thomas) Rosalynde, 1598.
Longman (1815), £20 (imperfect). Heber, £5, 10s. Ouvry (1882), £63.
Lok’s (Henry) Ecclesiastes (London: Richard Field, 1597).
Longmans (1815), £28. Sotheby’s (March 1817), £6, 16s. G. Daniel, £38, 10s.
The first editions of Milton’s works have greatly increased in price. Not many years ago a copy of the first edition of the “Paradise Lost” could be obtained for about five pounds, but now a good copy is worth at least four times as much. The prices vary considerably with the date of the title-page, of which there are several issues. G. Daniel’s fine copy sold in 1864 for £28, 10s.
Milton’s Maske (Comus), 1637.
Loscombe, £25. G. Daniel, £36.
—— Poems, 1645, first edition,