Excerpt from History of Prices: Since the Year 1850 Great Britain stands for United Kingdom, Austria for Austro Hungary, and Scandinavia for Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The price of silver has fallen while the sheets were going through press, being now 475 pence, instead of 49, as on page 12. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.