In 1888 The Penny Illustrated Paper provided extensive and illustrated coverage of the ‘Jack the Ripper’ murders and a bound volume of the weekly issues for that year made $6000 (£4580) as part of the Eric Caren archive.
The early weeks of March proved a particularly busy time for one saleroom in the US. As well as sales featuring the medical and scientific collections of W Bruce Fye, reported in ATG No 2386, Bonhams New York (27.5/25/20/13.9%) also sold the seventh instalment of Eric Caren’s How History Unfolds on Paper collection online, and in their Madison Avenue rooms offered Extraordinary Books & Manuscripts.
Held on March 12, the last mentioned auction ran to just 58 lots, ranging from Newton’s copy of mathematician and astronomer John Greaves’ Pyramidographia… of 1646 to a working example of an Apple-1 microcomputer motherboard.