ADIFFERENCE IN VALUE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12467, 17 February 1909, Page 4

ADIFFERENCE IN VALUE.

.Close upon fifty years ago a picturesque Hgure.of a man; waltced into the shop of Bernard Quaritchand dumped down a parcel. "Sell these for me, they have . your name on them," tie said. The man was Edward Fitzgerald. The parcel con'tiined the paper-bound copies of "The Kubaiyat.of Omar Khayyam; ' 4to ; B. Quaritch,: 1859.' I '. A few had been sold among friends; a, few more appealed to tbe few discerning. . To mention the "nest, stage, is tomake a confession from which Bernard Quaritch the youngest does not flinoh (says a London paper). "The: rest went into our twopenny bosr. " Wnen the collecting world rings with the fame. of the Q'uaritches it is soothing to think of this "And we have been buying back what went into, that twopenny box /ever since," 'Mr Quaritch added the *. other day, just as be was bidding £40 for one of the clesner survivors of . the 250 . paper, copies inscribed . with' the name of. Bessie Howe, the J grand-daughter of Fitzgerald's ' housekeeper. j -.:'-. — ' ' . ... '..... i