at the charge of John Frederick, Elector of Saxony.
Edwards employed Bodoni to print for him six copies of the edition of the “Castle of Otranto” (Parma, 1791) on vellum, and his own copy, made up with a selection of the best sheets, sold at his sale in 1815 for £29, 8s.
At Watson Taylor’s sale Pope’s “Essay on Man” (1819), printed on vellum, sold for £10.
Mention has already been made of the grand copies on vellum of the earliest productions of the printing-press—the Mazarin Bible, &c.
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Good illustrated books, which are an ornament to any library, are now high priced, and are not likely to fall in value. Such books as Dibdin’s bibliographical works, Rogers’s “Italy” and “Poems,” and many other books of a like kind, must always be a delight to the æsthetic collector.
Collections of engraved portraits have realised great prices, such as Holland’s Basiliωgia (1618), which sold for £600 at Christie’s