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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 168448, member: 25&quot;]It is not really worth any money. Similar prayer books are not uncommon, it is frequently found that things of little value do not appear on the internet because no one thinks it worth the time to mention or list them. So people who know what they are, simply say, &#039;Oh, it&#039;s one of them&#039; and people who do not tend to think they are rare because they can&#039;t find mention of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The explosion of literacy in the nineteenth century, coupled with the massive drop in the cost of book production, means that in general, just being an old book is not really at all special financially, although they can be treasured personally as objects.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 17th C., books were really expensive; as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board (a senior government job) Samuel Pepys was nominally paid £300 a year and he considered carefully paying a pound for a new book he wanted. By the end of the 19th C books such as yours would be given away free as part of the evangelical process, and other books would cost a shilling or two in the face of much higher real wages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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