Re: guide to archives

Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:48:01 +0100

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I have just checked the price of my first pb edition of Foster and
Sheppard, British Archives (1984): Macmillan asked #9.95. I received a
flyer a few days ago from Stockton offering the 3rd (?) edition for $160. If
we were to consider the 1984 price as about the equivalent of $16, we are
faced with a 1000% price increase over a ten year period. Even with all
of the improvements, etc in this latest edition, this is an
unwarranted and unconscionable price increase. I for one am reluctant to
suggest it to my library much less purchase it myself. We can't
encourage these people (the publishers not the authors).

Lamar M. Hill
UCIrvine
lhill@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu

[In response to this posting:]
> There is a third edition (October 1995) of Janet Foster and Julia
> Sheppard, BRITISH ARCHIVES (Stockton Press).

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