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<p>[QUOTE="2manycats, post: 4401504, member: 13761"]19th century isn't too old, as books go - an 'old' book, to a high-end bookseller, is from the 16th century or earlier; "incunabula", or books printed prior to 1500 are generally quite desirable and collected just for their age, dating as they do to the dawn of mass-production. But 19th century would still fit in the broad category of 'antiquarian', as opposed to 'modern', or twentieth century+ books.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most-collected Victorian era books, as far as I know (I mostly handle modern material), are the so-called triple-deckers, novels issued in three volumes, among the most interesting of which are Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and the Brontes; other valuable forms are the partworks of authors like Dickens & Trollope, a series of monthly pamphlets or parts, often ending in cliffhangers, sold cheaply, then usually issued as a book later; so you might see a dealer offering The Pickwick Papers "in the original parts" for startling amounts of money.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not aware of any particular fora on books of the era, but Abebooks does have a general discussion here:</p><p><a href="https://forums.abebooks.com/discussions/AbeBookscom_Community_Forum/General/abecom/2?listmode=13&dbg=6&nav=messages&mobile=y" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.abebooks.com/discussions/AbeBookscom_Community_Forum/General/abecom/2?listmode=13&dbg=6&nav=messages&mobile=y" rel="nofollow">https://forums.abebooks.com/discussions/AbeBookscom_Community_Forum/General/abecom/2?listmode=13&dbg=6&nav=messages&mobile=y</a></p><p>where you might be able scare up a conversation - maybe. Some of them are a bit squirrelly there. Abe's advanced search will also allow you to set dates as search parameters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manycats, post: 4401504, member: 13761"]19th century isn't too old, as books go - an 'old' book, to a high-end bookseller, is from the 16th century or earlier; "incunabula", or books printed prior to 1500 are generally quite desirable and collected just for their age, dating as they do to the dawn of mass-production. But 19th century would still fit in the broad category of 'antiquarian', as opposed to 'modern', or twentieth century+ books. The most-collected Victorian era books, as far as I know (I mostly handle modern material), are the so-called triple-deckers, novels issued in three volumes, among the most interesting of which are Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and the Brontes; other valuable forms are the partworks of authors like Dickens & Trollope, a series of monthly pamphlets or parts, often ending in cliffhangers, sold cheaply, then usually issued as a book later; so you might see a dealer offering The Pickwick Papers "in the original parts" for startling amounts of money. I'm not aware of any particular fora on books of the era, but Abebooks does have a general discussion here: [URL]https://forums.abebooks.com/discussions/AbeBookscom_Community_Forum/General/abecom/2?listmode=13&dbg=6&nav=messages&mobile=y[/URL] where you might be able scare up a conversation - maybe. Some of them are a bit squirrelly there. Abe's advanced search will also allow you to set dates as search parameters.[/QUOTE]
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