Book.

The dearest ever sold. A Mazarin Bible at the Thorold sale, in 1884, bought by Mr. Quaritch, bookseller, Piccadilly, London, for £3,900. In 1873 Lord Ashburnham gave £3,400 for a copy.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Bonnie Dundee
Bonnyclabber
Bono Johnny
Bontemps
Bonus
Bonzes (sing. Bonze)
Booby
Booby (Lady)
Booby-trap (A)
Book (Ang.-Saxon, boc; Danish, beuke; German, buche, a beech-tree)
Book
Book
Book of Books (The)
Book of Life (The)
Books
Book-keeper
Book-keeping
Bookworm
Boom
Boom-Passenger (A)
Boon Companion (A)