Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1914 — Costly Literature. [ARTICLE]

Costly Literature.

Perhaps the costliest book ever issued was that written and published a few years agoaby a wealthy American, who spent most of his life and a large fortune in the collection of specimens of jade. Only a hundred copies of the book were printed, and these cost over SIBO,OOO, or about SI,BOO per copy. It was a marvelous production, but scarcely so Interesting aB the Hon. Walter Rothschild’s book on "Extinct Birds,” which represented many years of labor and cost its author something like SIOO,OOO to produce. Mr. Rothschild stipulated that the book should be turned out In imperishable form, as It was improbable that the subject would ever ba done again and he wished the work to endure for all time. Only 300 copies were printed In English for private circulation, the price of each copy being $525.