London Book Auction

Graphic Review, 1897 (Volume 7, Nos. 1-12) 1897-10-20 / No. 10

At a recent book auction in London, several old Bibles sold for very high prices. The Biblia pauperum of 1430, a one-sided woodblock print, fetched £1,050. A Bible printed on parchment by Gutenberg and Fust in 1450-55, the first book printed with metal type, sold for £4,000. A Latin Bible by Fust and Schöffer of 1462, also a parchment copy, was bought for £1,500. A book by Caxton, England’s first printer, of 1478, sold for £750; another work by the same printer brought £300.