Note 619 — Chapter IX · (continued 2)

[Rich priced this book in 1832 (no. 375) at £1 10s.,—an extraordinary high sum for those days. I have seen the London edition priced recently at £26, and $75; and the Boston edition in the Menzies sale (no. 990) brought $200. It was reprinted in New England at least six times (all spurious editions) between 1775 and 1814 (Brinley Catalogue, 5,523, etc.; Carter-Brown Catalogue, ii. 1,167, 1,168, 1,170); and S. G. Drake brought out an annotated edition in two volumes in 1865. Cf. Hist. Mag., i. 252, 348; ii. 62.