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Probabilistic analysis of early modern British book prices

Tolonen Mikko; Lahti Leo; Tiihonen Iiro

Probabilistic analysis of early modern British book prices

Tolonen Mikko
Lahti Leo
Tiihonen Iiro
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021120859715
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Books are a valuable exception to the general rule that quantitative information about early modern history is scarce, as their survival rate during the period has varied between low and high tens of percents, and descriptive information summarizing their properties has been collected to library catalogues. However, one critical element that is essential for the numeric characterisation of a print product is most often missing - its price. In this paper, we use an exceptionally large data set of price information extracted from the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) for the early modern period to train a probabilistic model that predicts the price of a print product based on its physical properties. Our results suggest that just the simple physical properties of the print products can explain a significant proportion of the variation in prices. We use the model to quantitatively address the debated question about development of print product prices in eighteenth century Britain. We interpret the predictions of the model as a data driven narrative, and many of the developments it brings up can be readily linked with the relevant historical literature. © 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors.

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