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Category: Offers Contained in David Copperfield

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Since this iteration of Visible Prices features David Copperfield, I've provided a path that allows you to traverse the novel via the objects that are bought, sold, and offered within the novel.

The path begins with visualizations showing all the offers and amounts; and then continues, listing the objects offered from approximately lowest to highest.

This page has paths:

  1. Introduction: Visible Prices Prototype Paige Morgan

Contents of this path:

  1. The Personal History of David Copperfield (Offers view)
  2. The Personal History of David Copperfield (Amounts view)
  3. A glass of ale
  4. A loaf of brown bread
  5. Letter paper (1 sheet)
  6. Double-Gloucester cheese
  7. A dinner of meat pie, and access to water
  8. Carrying a trunk from Blackfriars to City Road, London
  9. Carrying a trunk from Blackfriars to Dover station
  10. A man's waistcoat, used
  11. Waiter service at dinner at an inn
  12. Almond cakes for a party of young men
  13. Biscuits, for a party of young men
  14. Fruit, for a party of young men
  15. A female servant to wash dishes for an evening dinner party
  16. A bottle of currant wine
  17. A man's jacket, used
  18. A raffle ticket
  19. The caul from a newborn infant
  20. One male servant for an evening dinner party
  21. Weekly salary for working in a warehouse inspecting, cleaning and filling bottles of wines and spirits
  22. A book providing training in stenography
  23. Salary for a page (weekly and annual)
  24. Salary for a clerk assisting young men studying to become lawyers (weekly and annual)
  25. Salary for a clerk (weekly and annual)
  26. Salary for a secretary to a school headmaster in Canterbury (weekly and annual)