Pre-1800 Church library sold for almost nothing
September 11th, 2007 by Roger Pearse at ToA
The Times reports that Truro Cathedral have sold off all their pre-1800 books. Charmingly they accepted a bid of only $72,000. The dealer who bought them sold them on for more than $1m, and is now retiring from business. Details of the historic library and the dispersal are here.
[...] geez, this is sharp practice. And geez, the people who run Truro Cathedral must never had heard of selling books piecemeal. Even [...]