Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1914 — Valuable Old Books. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Old Books.

An authority on curios notes in London Opinion that £7 m) (33,500) was the price paid for a copy of the first collected edition of the poems of Villon, the thieves poet (1522). The book bore the title “Lee Oevres de Maistre FTancoyß Villon.” The first edition (1653) of Isaak Walton’s “Compleat Angler” always commands a high price. A copy recently sold for £560, but in 1900 a copy sold at £ 1.085. Walton, like John Gilpin, was a linen draper of famous London town, who illustrated in his long life the benefit to be derived from a hobby. Angling was his recreation and his “Conpleat Angler,” with its charming descriptions of country life and the gentle sport has given him a place among the immortals. A month ago the autograpftmanuscript of Mark Twain’s “A Yankeifat the Court of King Arthur” sold at Sotheby’s auction house, London, for £IOO.