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Henry B. Wheatley examines the historical fluctuations in the prices of books as an indicator of broader economic and intellectual development. The text analyzes how factors such as scarcity, mechanical innovation, and changing social values influence the market value of printed works over time.

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CHAPTER XI PRICES OF VARIOUS CLASSES OF BOOKS

  • Atkyns’s ‘Gloucestershire,’ 244
  • Aubrey’s ‘Surrey,’ 244
  • Auchinleck library, 173
  • Auction, use of the word, 105
  • Auction sales: In the seventeenth century, 104-125 In the eighteenth century, 126-146 In the nineteenth century, 147-178
  • Auctioneer, print of, by Nicholls, 45
  • Auctioneers, 37-48
  • Augustinus, ‘De Civitate Dei,’ 192
  • Aungerville (Richard) = Richard de Bury, 3
  • Authors, remuneration of, 2, 14
  • Averages of book sales, 177
  • Aylesford (Earl of), his library, 171, 176
  • Bacon’s Henry VII., price, 94
  • Baker (Samuel), auctioneer, 134
  • Ballard (Thomas), auctioneer, 128, 130
  • Bancroft’s (T.) epigrams (1639), 216
  • Barnes’s (Juliana) ‘Treatyse of Fysshynge,’ 216
  • Barnfield’s (R.) ‘Lady Pecunia’ (1598), 216
  • Barrois collection of MSS., 72
  • Bateman (Lord), his library, 174
  • Bateman heirlooms, 173
  • Beauclerk (Topham), sale of his library, 140
  • Beaumont and Fletcher’s works, 221
  • Beckford (William), sales (1823) 158, (1882-3) 166, 175 ‘Poetical Sketches,’ 256
  • Bedford Missal, 75
  • Bedford (Francis), his library, 170
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