Wlion the "Pilgrim's Progress" was first published it fetched the modest price of ;i shilling a copy, and within seven years it had run to its tenth edition. Now a first edition copy has been sold at Sotheby's, in London, lor oyer £2OOO. Ibif the price is not as surprising to us as it would have been to our Victoria forbears. In the lilt it's it was believed that only one copy of this edition was in existence, and that was purchased by a Mr Hoi Ford, of Tetbury. for 20 guineas, and he is said to have refused an offer of three times as much for his bargain. To-day. in its original sheepskin cover, it is worth a hundred times what Mr liolford gave for it.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3134, 11 September 1922, Page 7
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