Word: beresford
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...Beresford Hope has just sold a part of his celebrated collection of books, and for some of them obtained excellent prices. Among the choice things in the sale were the first four folio editions of Shakespeare, the fourth edition being in fine condition, but the others had had their titles mended, and were otherwise not so perfect as a collector would be glad to see them. For the first, $1,190 was paid; for the second, $177; for the third, $363; for the fourth, $120. Cardinal Ximenez's Polyglot Bible, in six volumes, fetched $830; Cicero's Letters, first edition...