BOOK-PRICES CURRENT VOLUMES I. TO XXVII. Being a Record of the Prices at which Books have been sold at Auction during the years 1887 to 1913, with the Titles and Descriptions of the Books in full, the Catalogue Numbers, the Names of the Purchasers, Special Notes on certain Books, and a very full Index. Demy 8vo. bound in buckram, and printed on good paper, with fine margin for notes, price £1 7s. 6d. net each. Some of the earlier volumes are out of print, and greatly advanced in price. Information concerning these can be had on application to the Publisher. The more recent ones can still be had at the published price, but very few copies of any of the volumes remain on hand. Opinions of the Press. "We acknowledge, with much pleasure, that 'Book-Prices Current' is now the most carefully edited work of its kind published in this or any other country."-Athenæum. "With the present season of book-auctions, "Book-Prices Current' reaches its 25th year, and it is, we believe, the only purely bibliographical periodical in existence which has continued to appear for a quarter of a century regularly, uninterruptedly, and with a promptitude which is a credit to those who produce it and a boon to those who use it. It has had many rivals and imitators, both at home and abroad; but the only effect of this rivalry has been many improvements in matters of detail."-The Times, Sept. 29th, 1911. "It exhibits all those good qualities of accurate record which have raised the publication to such a position of universal esteem."-Publishers' Circular. Uniform with BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, THE INDEX TO THE FIRST BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, 1887-1896 "If money, as Anthony Trollope neatly put it, be the reward of labour, too much is certainly not asked for the labour which has marshalled into order a manuscript involving 33,000 distinct titles and considerably over 500,000 numerals. The typographical arrangement of the volume will receive praise from those who can understand the difficulties of the printers' task.' The Guardian. A RECORD OF THE PRICES AT WHICH BOOKS HAVE BEEN SOLD AT AUCTION, FROM OCTOBER, 1912, TO JULY, 1913, THE SECOND INDEX TO Book-Prices Current Volumes XI. to XX. For the Years 1897-1906. By WILLIAM JAGGARD, F.R.S.A., M.B.S., etc. FORMING A KEY TO THE TEN VOLUMES AND, INCI. DENTALLY, TO ANONYMOUS, PSEUDONYMOUS, AND SUPPRESSED LITERATURE, WITH A SUPPLEMENT OF BIBLIOPHILES AND BIBLIOPOLES. Uniform with "Book-Prices Current." Demy 8vo, pp. xx.-1058. Buckram gilt, £2 2s. net. The Clique says:---“In the course of testing a great number of references, to see whether we could discover any errors, we are glad to say that we can find none. This is high praise when the author says in his preface, 'This Index contains about one hundred thousand entries, while the numerals employed, which closely approach a million, almost defy counting.' Among the great advantages of the Index may be mentioned the promptitude with which the reader may now find and compare the relative value of any book during the decade covered (bringing to a point the various copies sold), enabling him to ascertain whether its value has increased or dimished during the period. . . . The Second Index is so superior to the former one that the permanent value of 'B.P.C.' as a bibliographer's guide is increased fourfold. This index is one of the largest ever compiled, and it represents three years' work." The Library Association Record says:-"This volume is indispensable to every reference library, and adds considerably to the reputation of English Bibliography." LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 7, Paternoster Row, E.C. THE Auction season which commenced last October proves to have been one of the busiest on record, as well as one of the most successful. Books of every class and kind have never ceased to pour into and from the London auction rooms during the last nine months, and the steady persistency became at last so marked that it almost seemed as though the chief concern of all sorts and conditions of owners was to dispose of their possessions as quickly as possible. This, of course, was an illusion, though none the less indicative of the unrest which has for some time past been observable in the very last places where it might have been expected, namely, in the once quiet private libraries, great or small, that have in their time and at all times furnished poets and essayists with endless themes. Since October last, that month included, more than sixty high-class sales have taken place in London alone, and the total amount realised has closely approached £200,000, a sum never before equalled in a corresponding period, in this country at any rate. To this amount the third portion of the Huth sale, held at Sotheby's on June 2nd and eight subsequent days, contributed £38,692, though it does not account for the immensity of the general turnover, for last season two instalments of the same Library realised £80,990, and yet the total for the whole season was but 181,780, an unusually large amount, certainly, but considerably less than this season has afforded. It is perfectly clear that the recent activity must be assigned to a specific cause, of which the Huth sale is but one of many factors. As will be seen from the analysis at the end of the "Table of Contents," the average sum realised through the season was £5 os. 7d., the highest on record, the nearest approach to it being that of the season 1911-1912, when it stood at £5 os. 2d. In 1907 the average was £4 4s. 2d., and that is the next highest. |