Book-Prices Current: A CORD OF THE PRICES AT WHICH BOOKS HAVE BEEN SOLD AT AUCTION, FROM OCTOBER, 1911, TO AUGUST, 1912, Book-Prices Current: A RECORD OF THE PRICES AT WHICH BOOKS HAVE BEEN SOLD AT AUCTION, FROM OCTOBER, 1911, TO AUGUST, 1912, 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, INCIDENTALLY, ΤΟ 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. INTRODUCTION. THE present volume of BOOK-PRICES CURRENT, being the twenty-sixth of the long series which during its progress has successfully appealed to more than a single generation of bookmen, is distinguished above its fellows in at least one respectit chronicles the results of the most successful season held since its commencement. A glance at the summary given at the foot of the Table of Contents will shew that books representing a total value of £181,780 have changed hands during the period October, 1911--August, 1912, and that the average sum realised per lot has been rather more than £5-an unprecedently large amount, the nearest approach to it being in 1907, when the average stood at £4 4s. 2d. The fifty-three sales reported in the following pages might, of course, be added to very considerably, and, in that case, the total sum obtained during the season would have been slightly increased and the average sum realised somewhat reduced; but for all useful purposes the sales reported represent the real activity of the season which has just closed, and the figures work out as might have been expected, having regard to a highly-exceptional factor of extreme importance which has had to be imported into the calculation. It is not surprising that the unusually high average of £5 has been reached, for the sale of the two first portions of the Huth Library alone resulted in a sum of very nearly £81,000 being added to the total, although no more than 2,553 lots were represented, and this, of course, raises the all-round average most materially. A simple calculation will show how matters stand in this respect. The Huth sale, though not nearly concluded-for only the letters A-D have been dealt with so far-stands out as being, with one exception, the most important from a money |