Edited by Federico Botana and Laura Cleaver
Series: Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities
134 Pages, Trim size: 6 x 9 in
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Graphs
List of Tables
"Introduction: The Value of Rare Books," by Federico Botana and Laura Cleaver
Chapter 1: "Valuing Rare Books in 1920s Germany: Prices in Jacques Rosenthal’s Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta," by Angéline Rais
Chapter 2: "Leo S. Olschki’s Card Index and Potential Profits," by Federico Botana
Chapter 3: "Stock-books and Ledgers: J. & J. Leighton and Édouard Rahir and Company ca. 1897–1904 and E. P. Goldschmid and Company ca. 1925–1933," by Laura Cleaver
Chapter 4: "Léopold Delisle, Henri Omont and the Price of National Collecting: The Medieval Manuscript Acquisitions of the Bibliothèque nationale ca. 1900–1910," by Hannah Morcos
Chapter 5: "Herschel V. Jones: Public Collections and Private Investments," Danielle Magnusson
"Conclusion," by Laura Cleaver
Appendix 1: Inflation
Appendix 2: Exchange Rates
Federico Botana is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of London as part of the CULTIVATE MSS Project.
Laura Cleaver is Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies at the University of London and Principal Investigator of the CULTIVATE MSS project.
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