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Paperback, [EAN: 9781332061730], Forgotten Books, Forgotten Books, Book, [PU: Forgotten Books], Forgotten Books, Excerpt from One Hundred Years of Book Auctions: Being a Brief Record of the Firm of Hodgson and Co (Commonly Known as "Hodgsons")Book - yet, only recently, has been paid for this most famous book, and he would be a bold man who would say, even now, that the highest limit has been reached. It is inter esting in this connection to add that the copy to which Dibdin referred was sold by Mr. Robert Saunders on 2ist February, 1818, in a very re markable collection of Old English Literature (the sale of which extended over five days) and was described in the sale catalogue as a fine original copy of the first edition in a genuine state It was purchased by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville, who bequeathed it to the British Museum in 1846, although, alas! Not before it had been rebound in morocco, despite the fact that Grenville had acquired it in its first binding, as he himself noted on the fly-leaf! That the interest in the early editions of famous and rare books centred largely round the auction sales, was shown indeed by the fact that Dibdin, in his second and much eu larged edition of Bibliomania, added a new chapter on The Auction Room. By this ad dition he resolves, as explained in the preface, to gratify a certain book-auction-loving Bibliomaniac and similar collectors, whose approbation also he hopes to gain, by the motto prefixed to the chapter in question from Clavell's Catalogue of Books for 1680 a catalogue of no small interest in the early history of book auctions. Robert Watt had hardly commenced in 1807 his great Bibliotheca Britannica, which despite untiring industry was not completed until after his death; while Lowndes was not to pub lish the original edition of his Bibliographer's Manual - a work which has the oft-forgotten merit of being the first systematic bibliography of the kind in England - until nearly thirty years later.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works., 3, Business & Money, 266117, Accounting, 2538, Biography & History, 2558, Business Culture, 2581, Economics, 2732, Education & Reference, 2604, Finance, 10020683011, Human Resources, 2624, Industries, 2638, Insurance, 2657, International, 2665, Investing, 2572, Job Hunting & Careers, 2675, Management & Leadership, 2698, Marketing & Sales, 2717, Personal Finance, 355561011, Processes & Infrastructure, 2650, Real Estate, 355562011, Skills, 2741, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 7743000011, Taxation, 355578011, Women & Business, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<