Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — Books Worth a Small Fortune. [ARTICLE]

Books Worth a Small Fortune.

The highest price ever paid for a second folio Shakespeare was given In London the other day at the sale of the late Earl of Oxford'S library. This was the first and purest copy known of the Second Folio Shakespeare, 1632, in the original calf binding, formerly the property of George Daniel, the noted Shakespearean scholar, at whose sale In 1864 it sold for $740; it now* advanced to $2,700. Horace Walpoles copy of “To the Hebrides with Dr. Johnson,” with a number of caustic autograph notes by him, sold at $205. Catharine de Medici's copy of Ariosto's “Orlando Furioso,” 1556, in contemporary Venetian light brown calf, brought $750.