Thanks John. Input appreciated.

Mark



On Tue, 29 May 2007 06:38:33 +1000, John R. Yamamoto-Wilson
wrote:

Francis A. Miniter wrote:

condition matters enormously in determining the price of a piece like
this.

As well as edition, of course. The OP's edition isn't the first edition,
and won't fetch four figures (like some of the copies on AddaLL) or
anywhere near.

There aren't any comparable editions of this play on ABE or AddaLL
(everything seems to be either about forty years earlier or forty years
later), but you might try searching in both places for Vanbrugh's works
in general. There are some silly prices (a Penguin paperback edition of
four Vanbrugh plays for over $200; things like this sometimes result
from a misplaced decimal point in the listing), and the relatively high
prices for The Provok'd Husband (1728) need to be seen in light of the
fact that it was polished up after his death and 1728 is actually the
first edition.

I would say you could probably get some sense of what your volume might
be worth by comparing it with the following:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sear...=14&ds=30&x=59
(http://tinyurl.com/2jaqbu)

Francis is right, and condition will be the main thing determining
whether it is at the higher or lower end of that spectrum.

John



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