. One hundred years of book auctions, 1807-1907; being a brief record of the firm of Hodgson and Co. (commonly known as "Hodgsons") ... rger sum than ifit were sold privately en bloCy as a large propor-tion of the volumes would probably be only ofsmall utility to any one purchaser. Sometimesit will be found that in a theological library thereare two or three volumes of the early poems ofTennyson or Browning, some of which are ofconsiderable value from the collectors point ofview. But a purchaser to whom the theologicalbooks would be valuable, would probably not bein a position to make the best
. One hundred years of book auctions, 1807-1907; being a brief record of the firm of Hodgson and Co. (commonly known as "Hodgsons") ... rger sum than ifit were sold privately en bloCy as a large propor-tion of the volumes would probably be only ofsmall utility to any one purchaser. Sometimesit will be found that in a theological library thereare two or three volumes of the early poems ofTennyson or Browning, some of which are ofconsiderable value from the collectors point ofview. But a purchaser to whom the theologicalbooks would be valuable, would probably not bein a position to make the best use of the poeticalworks even if he knew their value. On the otherhand, it is quite certain that the theologicalbooks would be valueless to one anxious to ac-quire only the Tennyson and Browning take the case of a copy of that very rare littlebook, MCringers Compendious Treatise onModern Education, 1802—which is so highlyvalued by collectors because of the illustrationsby the great caricaturist, Thomas Rowlandson—found in a library of old antiquarian andscientific books. To the man interested in an- ■y—--rr^.-. J FACSIMILE OV A RARE in Kin\ I. \.\l)SO\TO .MODERN EDlCATION. SolJ at Chancery Lane, Xoveniber ^nil. , ;r jC\a. tiquities or science it is of no value or interestwhatsoever, and yet, when put up for public sale,it brought ^30, though consisting only of eightplates with brief descriptive text. Or such a rareand valuable book as the editio princeps of Euclidmay be found amongst an old collection of naturalhistory books, and would certainly be of no valueto one buying those books for the sake of theirsubject. Such instances, again, could be quotedalmost indefinitely from the sales of recent extract from Dean Swifts delightful Jour-nal to Stella must suffice to illustrate finallythe truth of these remarks, and at the same timeincidentally to show that their application hasbeen in force for at leas
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