Sunday, July 12, 2015

Are these the most expensive books in Britain? The world even?

Book seller Peter Harrington has released a new catalogue, including a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses for £250,000 and Thomas More's Utopia for £350,000

Bookseller Peter Harrington
Peter Harrington is a book collector's dream world Photo: Peter Harrington

While in the age of the Kindle, not everyone is totally bought up, literally, to the idea of handing over money for an old-fashioned book, for others, there is plenty of scope for lining the bookshelves. For the very keenest bookworms, money is no object.
But would you, if you could, buy the most expensive first edition in the world? 

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