 In March 2000 the Fox-Bute copy sold at Christie's, New York, for $8,802,500.In December 2005 an unbound copy, the Providence Athenaeum Set, sold, again at Christie's, New York, for $5.6 million.On 6 December 2010, a complete copy of the first edition was sold in London at Sotheby's for £7,321,250 (approximately $11.5 million) during the sale of Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick, Second Lord Hesketh.