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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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A still more elaborate edition was published by the Grolier Club in 1889. This was edited by Professor A. F. West, and printed in three volumes small quarto. It was issued in a small edition, and a sight of it is therefore difficult to obtain.

2

From Ernest C. Thomas’s translation, 1888.

3

Dibdin’s Bibliomania, Part V.

4

William Oldys’s “Choice Notes,” 1862, p. 38.

5

Ibid. p. 92.

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