Re: Cost of AR's books, was boats

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Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 16, 2005 at 19:38:47 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Cost of AR's books, was boats posted by John Wilson on November 16, 2005 at 13:57:35:

The original prices of the S&A books in England was 7 shillings and 6 pence (7/6d), or 3/8th of a pound (£).

This would make them around £15 in today's washers, roughly averaging the RPI and GDP deflator.

As fat hard cover books, that's in the right ball park for such books today. Isn't it?

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