Show MISPRINTS BOOST RARE BOOK VALUES CLEVELAND NEA NEA-By NEA By their misprints ye shall know th them m. m The three elements that enter Into the valuation of ot rare old books are de desirability desirability de- de demand and the d degree gree of ot rarity Thomas J. J Holmes librarian li librarian li- li of ot the W W. G. G Mather collection collection col col- col- col lection was doing the talking He Indicated copies of ot The Wicked Mans Man's Portion and The Wonders of ot the Invisible World written by Cotton Colton Mather The latter latter latter lat lat- lat lat- ter he said was purchased at a s. aNew aNew New York sale for while the theother theother theother other cost 1000 The first edition is the authors author's child The true collector does no not desire the second edition but the first with all its misprints ScarcIty Scarcity Scarcity ity in books always makes mikes values alues he went on A copy of ot the Gutenberg Gutenberg Gutenberg Guten Guten- berg Bible sold in New York two years ago for It was later sold to Mrs Harkness and then placed in the Yale collection Returning to The Wonders o othe of the Invisible World Holmes ex explained explained ex- ex That book is the only com- com lete leto account of ot the trial of ot contemporary contemporary contemporary witchcraft of ot early New En En- gland The court supplied the material material material ma ma- and commissioned Mather to write it Eleven copies of f this volume volume vol vol- ume are all that exist today |