. One hundred years of book auctions, 1807-1907; being a brief record of the firm of Hodgson and Co. (commonly known as "Hodgsons") ... fields ofbibliographical science or to particular authors,are also ready at hand, to assist the catalogueron those points which it is absolutely impossiblefor any one man to bear always in mind. Suchworks set forth in detail, innumerable and oftenquite insignificant variations between differenteditions, or even between different issues of thesame edition—variations which, although some-times quite unimportant in themselves, oftenenhance values to a considerabl
. One hundred years of book auctions, 1807-1907; being a brief record of the firm of Hodgson and Co. (commonly known as "Hodgsons") ... fields ofbibliographical science or to particular authors,are also ready at hand, to assist the catalogueron those points which it is absolutely impossiblefor any one man to bear always in mind. Suchworks set forth in detail, innumerable and oftenquite insignificant variations between differenteditions, or even between different issues of thesame edition—variations which, although some-times quite unimportant in themselves, oftenenhance values to a considerable extent. Inthe case of exceptionally rare books, a com-parison is made with the copies in the BritishMuseum, while resort is often had to that greatinstitution for purposes of reference. In theevent of any points of special bibliographicalinterest being observed, or where any feature of 34 ENCOVRAGEMENTS for fuch as shall have intention to bcc Vndcr-takcrs in the new plantationoiCAfE BRirO/\/.ynow NsrvGdUo^itajin AMERICA, BX MEE LOCHINVAR- 2i9ti nobis vati fumtiSj Alii^uUliareiites yAliquidiPatriM y ^liquid co^nnii E^T> I N B V R G H, Stintcdlji lohn Wrcictoun. /nwo 2)ow. I^25# FACSIMILE OF THE CURIOIIS OF AN EARLY lUAl T RELATING TO AMERICA. Sold at Chancery Lane, November aisf, 1907, for ^140. fDniK-f owiKTsliip or l)iiurmL(, calls for particuKirnotice, attcnlioii is drawn to the fad l)y a nolcappended to the catalogue description. In soniccases facsimiles are ^iven of rare or curious title-pa^es, auto^^raph inscriptions or remarkablebindings (see plate on p. 35). Speakini^- j^ener-ally, far more exact and particular descriptions,especially of rare books, are now considerednecessary than was the case in the early years oflast century. This may be seen from the com-parison, on the followinLf pl^c, of the cataloguedescription of the Pirst POlio Shakespeare (re-ferred to at the commencement of this pamphlet)and that of a copy of the Foerns sold by
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