SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

[lludwig]

SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

2. What is the most valuable printed book?

Answer in invisible ink: 2. Was The Gutenberg Bible; now it is the Caxton Canterbury Tales

Note: I think a complete Gutenberg would beat the Canterbury if offered up to auction. However, the Caxton Canterbury is currently the most expensive printed book ever to change hands. 13 million? I forget.....

[oldbookshopnj]

549.
What is the most valuable music manuscript to have been sold at auction?

[fine.books]

The Glorious Ninth?

[oldbookshopnj]

Close, but not quite.

[fine.books]

Hmmm... something over five million, eh?

[oldbookshopnj]

No, just a tick better.

[oldbookshopnj]

And a few years before the Ninth.

[fine.books]

The Mozart compendium - sheesh! "Nine" really was close.

[oldbookshopnj]

549. I missed the reply last night--simultaneaous post. A Mozart manuscript sold for $4.34 million in 1987.

[oldbookshopnj]

550. The first book by this English author, who is known as a prolific writer of children's books, was a three-volume adult novel set in an exotic local, and his second book was about European travels.

Who was he?

[professorbooknoodle]

G. A. Henty A Search for a Secret London, 1867 - 3 volumes.

Second book March to Magdala,London 1868 - 3 volumes.

[professorbooknoodle]

That was for #550

[oldbookshopnj]

550. It's not the author I was thinking of, but it certainly is an awfully close fit--a triple decker, then a travel book.

I did say the novel was in an exotic locale, and the second book was European travels.

[professorbooknoodle]

In 19th century Anglican England, the Catholic Church , around which the plot of Henty's book turned, was thought a little too exotic. There was a popish missionary lurking behind every pillar and tree.

[professorbooknoodle]

550 Oh well, than we are thrown back onto William Henry Giles Kingston's The Circassian Chief, A Romance of Russia, published by Richard Bentley in 1843, 3 volumes.
His second book was Lusitanian Sketches, about travels in Portugal. His novel, The Prime Minister was also released in 1844, I am unsure of the precedence between it and Lusitanian Sketches. Let's call it Lusitanian for the sake of the quiz.

[professorbooknoodle]

Russia was probably considered exotic by many Englanders, despite the amount of common trade and diplomatic intercourse between Britain and Russia.