Note 263 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
The price of one copy to a subscriber was £10; of six copies, £50. To others the cost seems to have been from £15 to £18.—Thorndike's Works, vi. 203, note. In Jacobson's edition of Sanderson's Works, vol. vi. 375, is a list of subscriptions amounting to £560. Walton's Polyglott is said to be the first book published in England by subscription.