98, thirteen Caxtons were sold, as follows:

L s. d.
'The Boke called Cathon,' 1483 0 3 0
'Chastising of Goddes Chyldern' 0 1 10
'Doctrinal of Sapience,' 1489 }
'Chastising of Goddes Chyldern' } 0 5 0
'Chronicle of England,' _very old_ 0 4 0
'Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers,' 1477 0 5 4
'Game and Playe of the Chesse,' 1474 0 1 6
'Godefroy of Boloyne,' 1481 0 4 0
'Historyes of Troy,' 1500 0 3 0
'Jason and the Golden Fleece' 0 3 6
'Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye,' 1502 0 3 0
Another copy 0 3 0
'Tullius of Olde Age' 0 4 2
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L2 1 4

Eighty years later, when the library of John Ratcliffe[132:A] was sold
at Christie's (March 27, 1776), a collection of upwards of thirty
Caxtons came under the hammer, and of these we will only quote seven
examples:

L s. d.
'Chronicles of Englande,' fine copy, 1480 5 5 0
'Doctrinal of Sapience,' 1489 8 8 0
'The Boke called Cathon,' 1483 5 5 0
'The Polytique Book, named Tullius de Senectute,' 1481 14 0 0
'The Game and Playe of Chesse' 16 0 0
'The Boke of Jason' 5 10 0
'Legenda Aurea,'[133:A] 1483 9 15 0

At the Watson Taylor and Perry sales in 1823, four examples, nearly all
fine copies, of Caxton's books realized a total of L239 5s., as follows:

L s. d.
'The Life of Jason,' 1476-77 95 11 0
'The Boke called Cathon,' 1483 30 19 6
'Troylus and Creside,' 1484 66 0 0
Virgil's 'Eneidos,' 1490, very fine and perfect 46 14 6

[Illustration: _The Fifty-seven Althorp Caxtons._]

We do not think that the foregoing sets of figures call for any
elaborate comment. The present value of each item may be averaged at
from L2