Section IV3 entries
Signatures K · L · M
What a book cost, and to whom.
Price
A price is a specification. Sixpence rules out cloth and rules in a particular paper, a particular extent and a particular type size — and a price only means anything set against a wage.
Entries in Price
Filed by fold
- Ten titles at sixpence
Allen Lane priced the first ten Penguins in 1935 at the cost of a packet of cigarettes; the first was André Maurois's Ariel.
Signature K
Price - What a book cost
Prices only mean something against a wage, and the comparison changes the story.
Signature L
Price - Paper and price
Paper is most of the cost, which is why format and price move together.
Signature M
Price