Recently published in strong Buckram, price £1 75. 6d. BOOK PRICES CURRENT, VOLUME III. Being a Record of the Prices at which Books have been sold at Auction during 1890, with the Titles and Descriptions of the Books in full, the Catalogue Numbers, and the Names of the Purchasers. This volume has been very gladly welcomed by collectors, booksellers, and book buyers as being a most useful record of prices, and a book for permanent reference as to the value of works sold at auction. The very copious Index which accompanies the volume adds very considerably to its value. VOL. I (out of print). VOL. II, only a few copies left. Opinions of the Press. "It will furnish a record of great use and interest to the bibliophile."— Notes and Queries. "The practical utility of such a record will be best appreciated by those who have been accustomed to consult such guides as Lowndes and Brunet with a feeling that their information, though in great part obsolete, is at least much better than no information at all."-Daily News. "Like other of Mr. Stock's publications, it is beautifully printed."— Printer and Stationer. "Such a publication has long been a desideratum needed by booksellers, librarians, and bibliophiles."--Trübner's Literary Record. 1 Book-Prices Current: A RECORD OF THE PRICES AT WHICH BOOKS HAVE BEEN SOLD AT AUCTION, FROM DECEMBER, 1889, TO NOVEMBER, 1890. Lib. Sci 37529 PREFACE. THE season which closed with this volume was productive of more than the average number of sales by auction, but the consequence of the collections dispersed was by no means remarkable. The part of the library of Mr. Thomas Gaisford, and the collection formed by the late Sir Edward Sullivan, at one time Lord Chancellor of Ireland, were undoubtedly the most important dispersions of the season, but how far they were inferior in point of quality to the representative sales of former years, many of which are duly reported in one or other of the preceding volumes of Book-Prices Current, will be apparent on a most superficial comparison. truth is, that the majority of the sales by auction which took place between December 1889 and November 1890, were made up of lots which have been noted over and over again; which never were of any great interest at any time, nor hardly worthy of fresh consideration now. The I have utilised the opportunity afforded by these circumstances, to extend the utility of the fourth volume of Book-Prices Current, by paying special attention to an increased number of foreign printed works, all carefully selected with a due regard to their importance and value. The courtesy and kindness shown to me on all occasions, and I fear sometimes at great personal inconvenience to themselves, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, and Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods, who have dispersed most of the libraries referred to in the following pages, are reflected in almost every leaf, and have considerably lightened a task which, at its best, may be well understood to be rather monotonous. 3, Plowden Buildings, Temple, E.C. J. H. S. |