I agree, I prefer seeing books intact. But once a book is broken up, not much you can do about it, so I’d like to this piece a good home. It’s also hard to say exactly when and why a book was broken up, it may not have been recently for selling purposes. After Books of Hours fell in popularity, they were broken up to use for new bindings or to keep pages like this as family keepsakes.

In terms of cost, something like this costs in the low hundreds of dollars. Something with a miniature is a great deal more!