A review by dee9401
Prices of Books by Henry B. Wheatley

4.0

What a fun piece of book porn from 1898. This wonderful volume covers the rise of the book collector and the prices at which books have sold from the 17th century up until this edition was published. Wheatley chronicles the rise of the great private and public libraries and how they were built and sold. He has lots of anecdotes about sales, the rise of auctions and little tidbits about various famous, infamous or forgotten books. Well worth the time to peruse.

N.B. My edition was actually the Project Gutenberg one.