Narrative

Price Point

16. Price: 3s. 6d. per volume

At three shillings and sixpence per volume The Beauties of Literature or Cabinet of Genius (1804) would not be available to most people. Volume III features ‘The Beauties of Shakespeare.’ Other such collections were not uncommon, including the Pocket Magazine of Classic and Polite Literature (1824) available in the Popular Romanticism database. Single-volume novels were also available in the same price range.