Note 303 — XIX—BIBLIOGRAPHY

Perfect copies range in price, according to their rarity, from £200 to £300. In 1864, at the sale of George Daniel’s library, quarto copies of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ and of ‘Merry Wives’ (first edition) each fetched £346 10s. On May 14, 1897, a copy of the quarto of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (printed by James Roberts in 1600) was sold at Sotheby’s for £315.