A £10,000 BOOK.
Eeside3 owning the finest pictures in any individual collection. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the American millionaire, has also the costliest print library. Here are some of his book treasures, with the prices he paid for them:—A set of A- l--dines (£30,000), a Caxton (£1.000), the original MS. of Byron's "Corsair" and of Lytton's "Last Days of Pompeii" (£2000), the "Kvaugelia Quatuor," bound in beaten sold -ludded with precious stones (£10.000), the Syston Park Psalter (5000 guineas). the Ms. of Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of giArchitecture" (£5000), the MS. of "The Autocrat of tbe Breakfast Table" (£800), a set of Dickens (£10.000). an Old Testament illustrated by Tissot £1000), the "Psalmorum Codex," described as "the grandest book ever printed" £6000), and last, but by no means least, William Morris' entire library of seven hundred books, including thirtysix Caxtons. for which Mr. Morgan paid nearly a million sterling.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 2
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148A £10,000 BOOK. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 2
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