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humbly to crave your Majesty's most gracious attention
to the following account of their proceedings, from the
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with which your Majesty has been pleased to honour
them. To the faithful performance of the duties re-
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aevote themselves, with an assiduity proportioned to the
deep sense of responsibility which a just consideration of
those duties cannot fail to awaken.
In the first report which we presented to your Ma-
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adopted by us for carrying into practical effect the gra-
cious intention expressed in your royal warrant for the
appointment of the board—of lessening, as far as pos-
sible, the cost price of the Sacred Scriptures and other
works falling under our privilege, by opening the print-
ing and publishing of them to free competition, in so far
as might be found to be consistent with due security for
the correctness of the text.
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portant instructions which accompanied your Majesty's
Commission were found to be at once so distinct and
ample, that, in ordinary cases at least, little more was
necessary for securing the attainment of your Majesty's
most benevolent object, than to convert those instructions
into the form of practical regulations for the guidance of
printers, and to make the requisite provisions for having
the regulations so derived efficiently enforced. The
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structions, license is granted by the Lord Advocate,
while they impose no restriction which can be felt to be
a hardship by any printer competent to embark in the
business of publication, and honestly desirous of execut-
ing with fidelity the work undertaken by him, afford to
the board all necessary facilities for enforcing accuracy.
A license can be obtained by any person, on intimating
to the Lord Advocate, according to a duly authenticated
form, of which drafts are supplied by the Crown Agent.
his intention to print and publish an edition of any of
the works intrusted to the care of the board ; provided
always he enter into a cautionary bond to print the pro-
posed edition in exact conformity with some previously
authorised edition of the same work—to furnish the
board, so as to enable them to judge of the fidelity of
the reprint, with a specimen copy both of the edition
printed from and of the new edition—the latter in such
portions as they shall see cause to prescribe—and to
cancel, under their direction, every deviation from the
original text. It is obvious, on the other band, that the
due observance of these provisions must supply the board
with every requisite means of discharging satisfactorily
the important duties with which they have been intrusted.
It has been an object of primary care to the board to
insist on the most rigid compliance with the regulations
to which they have now adverted. In no case has an
edition of any of the works subject to their control been
permitted to be published without a license. Nor has
the publication of any new edition been allowed, of which
a specimen copy had not been previously transmitted to
the secretary and brought before the board. In regard
to the portions of new editions transmitted, and also to
the times of transmission, they have been anxious in-
deed to consult the convenience of publishers—but sub-
ject, in every case, to the conditions required by the
faithful discharge of their own duty. And they feel it
to be only an act of justice to those who have been en-
gaged in printing and publishing under their superin-
tendence, that they should here state that, in reference
to these regulations—with one or two exceptions, not of
recent occurrence—the authority of the board has been
duly respected.
To the rule originally adopted by us in regard to the
specimen-sheets to be transmitted to the secretary, by
which it is required that these sheets shall be part of
the finished work, from the heap, we continue to adhere.
The propriety, indeed the necessity of the rule, has been
amply confirmed by experience. The number of cancels
which, in several instances even of large impressions,
we have found it necessary to exact, notwithstanding
the heavy penalty which it was known that, under the
existing rule, each cancel that might be required would
inflict, affords conclusive evidence that, were the board
to rest satisfied with that transmission of a mere proof,
not a few cases would occur in which there would be de-
volved on the committee a large share of the work of
correcting the same. Such an arrangement would be
liable to the still more fatal objection of precluding the
supervision by the board of the impression as finally
thrown off. The method now pursued, on the contrary,
secures at once two independent revisals, and enables
the board to provide for the correcting of an imper-
fect impression, even when on the threshold of publica-
tion. Aware that it is competent for us to require can-
cels to be made in any part of a work printed under our
authority, provided they be ordered within a month
after the last sheets shall have been transmitted for in-
spection—that no authority will be given for publication
until the whole work shall have been revised under the
direction and superintendence of the secretary, aad that
the specimen-sheets to be so revised must be taken from
the entire impression fully printed off—the publisher
cannot fail to be determined, by the great expense ne-
cessarily attendant on cancelling under such circum-
stances, to guard against the oversight of errors with
the most anxious solicitude. Effectual provision is
thus made for a careful revisal of every new edition,
even before it come to be submitted for the inspection
of the board.
A specimen copy of each new impression, after hav-
ing undergone the revisal now noticed, has been regu-
larly forwarded to the secretary. Under his superin-
tendence, and on his responsibility, it has been again
subjected to an anxious examination. The errata dis-
covered by this renewed revisal have been carefully
noted down and submitted in detail for the decision of
the board.
In judging of the errors brought before them—in every
case of misprinted words, of such errors of punctuation
as affected the sense, and even of errors which, though
they might leave the sense untouched, were likely to
withdraw the attention of the reader from the sacred
narrative, and distract the current of serious thought,
might be making it
the board have, from the commencement of their course,
felt it to be imperative upon them to exact cancels.
of different
Where the deviations from the authorised edition were
of a less material character, and such as were likely to
discrepanciesvi-ho
theireditions, and where the board believed themselves to
eir discoveredspecial
objectonly byo
have sufficient evidence that the deviations referred to
did not result from carelessness, they satisfied themselves
for some time with directing the attention of the pub-
lishers to these minute inaccuracies,_ and with. warning
them, in any case in which the deviations were
numerous, that unless there should be an improvement
nroetae4eXe
in subsequent editions, the board would feel it to be their
duty to call into exercise their full power.
The effect of the repeated admonitions given to pub-
lishers has been greatly to reduce the numbez of the
minute deviations now noticed ; and in the few cases in
which a disposition has been shown to neglect the cau-
tions of the board, we have latterly, without b&sitation,
exacted cancels. While we are aware that , scarcely
any degree of attention can secure an exact rep Tint, we
have judged that we imposed no unnecessary hardship
on publishers, by requiring the correction even of minute
inaccuracies to which their attention had been previously
directed. It is believed that, particularly in the editions
recently sanctioned by us, a very high degree of accuracy
has thus been attained.
It was explained in our former reports, that while the
license granted by the Lord Advocate can protect only
an exact reprint of an authorised edition, the boaird did
not conceive themselves to be precluded, by the to rms of
the instructions received from your Majesty, fr om al-
lowing the correction of a manifest error of one author-
ised edition, by the preferable reading of s another
authorised edition. They have continued to acts on this

liberal interpretation of the terms of your Majesty's in-
structions, adhering scrupulously, however, to the rule
of sanctioning no altered reading which was not sup-
ported by a previous authorised edition, and which at
the same time did not appear, on mature consideration,
to be an improvement on the edition printed from. It is
with no ordinary feeling of satisfaction, that the Board
bear testimony to the laudable anxiety manifested by
most publishers to render their editions of the Sacred
Scriptures as nearly perfect as possible.
The regulation adopted from the first by the Board,
in regard to impressions from stereotype plates, by
which it is provided that every impression taken after
an interval—that is, after the plates have been removed
from the press—shall be held to constitute a new edi-
tion, has been stedfastly adhered to, and experience has
fully evinced the just and necessary grounds on which it
was established. Numerous instances have come under
our observation, in which, from the chipping or break-
ing of the plates, letters, and points, and sometimes
entire words, have been either partially or altgoether
effaced, so as to disfigure the page, and in many cases
to obscure the sense. It is indispensably necessary,
therefore, that the plates should be frequently and care-
fully examined. By the rule prescribed by the board,
this important object has been fully attained. Publishers,
aware that each successive impression taken after an in-
terval must be submitted for our inspection, find that
they best consult their own interest, by keeping their
plates in a state of thorough repair.
But while in the cases in which the type used has
been of an ordinary size, the observance of the regula-
tion, now noticed has been found sufficient to secure a
distinct and unmutilated text, the result has not been

equally satisfactory where an extremely small type has
been used. In the latter case, it has been shown by ex •
perience that, in the course of printing off even a single
edition, the types frequently sustain material injury.
The same edition may happen, therefore, to be of unequal
merit; and it obviously results from such a contingency;
that the character of an edition cannot be precisely
ascertained from the copy of it submitted to the board.
Whether the great liability of the plates to deterioration

arises from the extreme smallness of the type made use
of, or from substituting for the presswork the power of
steam for manual labour, is a question which we are not

competent, and, which, happily-, we were not called upon
to discuss. On the point of fact our experience left no

room for doubt, and we felt that there was devolved

upon us, in consequence, a very solemn responsibility.
The view taken by us of our duty, in the circum-
stances to which reference has been made, was submitted

to your Majesty in our last report. In a case which
the imperfect typography of the editions brought before
us was imputable, in no degree, to carelessness on the
part of the publishers, but resulted from a form of publi-
cation which had been adopted with highly commendable
views, we were disposed, in the first instance, to exercise
the powers entrusted to us with all possible leniency.
But while yielding to this disposition, we satisfied our-
selves, in regard to the first impressions taken from the
plates, with exacting cancels only where they were
imperatively required by the sense, and with pointing
out minor blemishes for correction in subsequent editions,
the publishers were distinctly warned by us, that a con-
tinuance of such leniency was not to be expected by
them, and that a plain and entire text would be after-
wards unconditionally insisted on. We have sub-
sequently acted in accordance with the intimation thus
given, exacting cancels in all cases in which the sacred
text was not presented in a distinct and clearly legible
form. The cancels required were, for some time, nume-
rous ; and we are aware that the enforcing of our rule
was attended, in several instances, with considerable
hardship. In one case, so many cancels were exacted,
that an edition of the Bible was abandoned after the
work was considerably advanced. The duty which we
were called upon to discharge was felt by us to be a pain-
ful one ; but we felt, at the same time, that no consider-
ation could warrant us in shrinking from the full respon-
sibilities of the solemn trust reposed in us by your Ma-
jesty. We record, with unmingled pleasure, the grati-
fying fact, that many, indeed most, of those publishing
privileged works under our authority, have been equally
forward with ourselves to have every blemish removed
from their respective editions.
But while the course which we have pursued in regard
to the smaller stereotyped editions has been generally
allowed to be both reasonable in itself and such as our
duty prescribed to us, it seems likely to result in the
abandonment of such editions for the future. Since the
intention of publishing the edition of the Bible, to which
we have above adverted, was relinquished, a period of
nearly twelve months has elapsed, and no new proposal
to print the Scriptures in the same diminutive size of
type has been received. Other facts might be adduced
by us having a similar bearing. Notwithstanding the
great improvements that have been recently made in
stereotype printing, the conviction seems to be gaining
ground that, under a certain size of type, it cannot be
used with advantage. In cases where great accuracy is
required, the expense of cancelling the unavoidable
blemishes which attend it, leaves no profit from the sale
of the work. That the publication of the smaller
stereotyped editions of the Scriptures should be aban-
doned, will be a matter of regret to none who duly ap-
preciate the value to the reader of a clear and distinct
text.

Soon after the transmission of our last report, com-
plaints reached us from several quarters of the impor-
tation into Scotland, and extensive sale in the Scotch
market, of various unauthorised editions of the Scriptures
printed and published in England. Parties publishing
priviliged works under the authority of the board, and
yielding a ready compliance, often to the serious dimuni-
tion of their profits, with every regulation prescribed by
us, reasonably demanded that they should be protected
in the enjoyment of their just rights, and secured from
the competition of publishers not subject to any such
restrictions. They alleged that while they did not
shrink from the equal and honourable rivalry which
they were required to maintain with your Majesty's
printers in England, and with the English Universi-
ties, it was impossible for them to prevent their works
from being undersold by editions prepared at less ex-
pense, because with a less careful regard to a distinct
and accurate text. _ .

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But reasonable as the complaint which was urged
appeared to be, there were circumstances connected with
the case which were felt by the Board to involve it in
much difficulty. One of the publications complained of
had been freely circulated throughout the United King-
dom for a period of upwards of twenty years, without
challenge from the English or Scotch patentees, or
either of the English Universities ; and, though an
equally extended prescription could not be pleaded for
the others, yet they, too, had been sold openly in Eng-
land for a considerable time, and they contained, besides,
an amount of notes, or marginal references, which might
be thought to exempt them from the privilege of the
board. The board, after anxious deliberation, unani-
mously resolved to submit the question for the opinion
of counsel, and a memorial for the information of counsel
was accordingly prepared ender their direction. The
opinion received, which, however, on a fuller statement
of facts, was afterwards, in reference to the work that
had been so long tolerated by the former patentees, con-
siderably modified, was favourable to the privileges of
the board, and recommended that immediate steps
should be taken, by suspension and interdict, against
the publishers of the unauthorisee editions.
The board, having procured the concurrence of the law
officers of the Crown, proceeded to act on this opinion,
and, with the exception of the particular publication in
reference to the illegality of which some doubts had been
expressed, obtained interdicts from the Court against the
further sale of the several editions complained of. But
the case now assumed a new aspect, from an offer made
by the publishers against whom legal proceedings had
been thus instituted, to withdraw from the Scotch mar-
ket the interdicted editions, and to replace them by
other editions of the same works submitted for the
judgment of the board, and corrected at their dis-
cretion, on the same conditions with privileged works
printed' and published in Scotland. It was immedi-
ately perceived by the board that the bearing of
this overture on the prosecution which they bad
entered would be most material. It would enable the
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ss,u pnportews
parties prosecuted to plead that, by the process raised
againstthe pa isthisntanSdciontglanand
works sold in England, without opposition either from
offer to bring these works into the Scotch market, sub-
ject to every provision for an accurate text which the
Scotch board had deemed it necessary to prescribe. They
might further contend that such proceedings were in
violation, if not of the letter, yet of the spirit of your
Majesty's instructions to the board, as tending to throw
obstacles in the way of free competition, and conse-
quently to enhance the price of the inspired volume. It
would be an additional argument against the prohibition
sought to be imposed, that the overture submitted would
still leave the parties from whom it proceeded subject to
the peculiar disadvantage of losing the drawback on
paper allowed to the privileged publisher.
Impressed with the weight of these considerations, the
board, after maturely deliberating upon the matter,
unanimously concluded that it would be their duty to
accede to the proposal which bad been made to them, if
they should be certified of their competency, in terms
of the warrant granted by your Majesty, to entertain
such proposal. They directed, therefore, that a full
statement of the case should be prepared and submitted
to the law officers of the Crown. On the statement laid
before them, the Learned Counsel were of opinion that
the board did not possess the requisite powers to sanction
the overture which had been received, but suggested
that as the case was of a novel character, it was desirable
that application should be made to your Majesty for
additional instructions. With this suggestion the board
entertaining an anxious desire that the question should
be authoritatively determined, were forward to comply ;
and they immediately made the appeal to your Majesty,
which was answered by the new Instructions dated Jan.
1845. These instructions, which agree in every particu-
lar with the views, both of their privileges and their
duty which they themselves were led to entertain, have
been most satisfactory to the board. Provision, it ap-
pears to them, has been thus made for giving the fullest
effect to the gracious desire of your Majesty, ahead)/ ad-
verted to, "of lessening, as far as possible, the cost price
of the works falling under the privilege of the boarltllY
opening the punting and publishing of the same to !tree
competition, in so far as is consistent with security for
the correctness of the text." The board, by the me
means, have been relieved of the painful duty w ich
might have otherwise devolved upon them, of have g to
appear in Court, without any plea of equity to urge in

PRICE SD.

support of their suit, as complainers against the free
and unrestrained circulation of the word of God, Forms
of declaration, licence, &c., adapted to the instructions
recently received, are subjoined in the appendix.
Any attempt to import unauthorised editions now that
means have been provided for securing to respectable
publishers the benefit of free competition under the
superintendence of the board, they will feel it to be their
duty most strenuously to resist. They are happy to be
able to state that, under the instructions, no complaint
upon this point has been preferred to them. From the
decisive measures that were taken some years ago for
the suppression of spurious editions published in Scot-
, land, the complaints of the fair trader in regard to such
editions have latterly been of rare occurrence. It is
hoped that, by the determination which has been evinced
by the board to persevere in those measures, all ground
of complaint will be speedily done away.
In their first report, the board informed your Majesty
of their design of preparing and publishing a standard
edition of the Scriptures, and of the principles on which
they proposed to carry that design into effect. It was
intimated in a subsequent report that the necessary pre-
parations were in a state of considerable advancement,
and that certain booksellers in this city had been autho-
rised by the board to issue' a prospectus of the proposed
work. A copy of the prospectus was subjoined as an
appendix to the report. It was the purpose of the board
to publish the work by subscription, as no independent
means of defraying the expenses of publication were
available to them. In the hope which they had
cherished, however, that a sufficient number of
subscribers would be obtained to warrant them
in proceeding with the undertaking, they were
doomed to be disappointed. After the prospectus
had been for many months before the public, it appeared
that only a few subscribers had come forward, and that
there was no likelihood that. the number would be ma-
terially. increased. The board were wilding ,to havei
altered the form'of the wort to indet the views orpilt=
lishers, but the expense, under any form, was found to
be so considerable, that no respectable publisher would
undertake it, except on terms involving the members of
the board in personal liabilities which they could not be
expected to incur. In these circumstances, the board,
of date 30th March, 1843, as they could not agree to the
conditions of publication proposed to them, found them-
selves constrained, though with much reluctance, to
suspend proceedings in reference to the intended stand-
ard edition. No opportunity of resuming, under more
favourable auspices, the design thus relinquished, has
since presented itself.

The great advantages anticipated from opening, to
free competition, the printing of the Inspired Volume,
&c., in respect alike of the reduction of prices, and a
more extensive circulation, will appear, it is presumed,
from the statement which we have now to submit to
your Majesty, to have been more than realised. It will
be seen, that in a pecuniary point of view alone, these
advantages are far from being inconsiderable. But
when attention is directed to the fact, that by the re-
duction of price which has taken place, the word of God
has been brought within the means, and has actually
come into the possession of many thousands of your
Majesty's subjects to whom it was formerly in great
justly
affirmed, or altogether, inaccessible, it may be
affirmed, that the importance and magnitude of the be-
nefit conferred are indeed incalculable. In a question
respecting the circulation of the Sacred Scriptures, the
pecuniary view of the case loses all value for itself, and
is felt to be of moment only as it affords an index of the
comparatively free, and it may be hoped triumphant,
course of inspired truth. It will render the subjoined
returns more distinct, if we classify them under the
several heads of Bibles, New Testaments, Psalms, Ca-
techisms, &c.

BIBLES.—Since the date of our last report, May, 1842,
there have been published, under the authority of the
board, sixty editions of the Bible. We regret that it is
not in our power to ascertain the number of copies of
which the editions consisted that were published previ-
ously to January, 1844. But until some time after pro-
vision was made for allowing drawback of duty, on the
paper used in printing the works falling under the privi-
lege of the board, the number of copies contained in
each edition, was not required to be specified. It was
only in August or September, 1843, that it was rosolved,
on the suggestion of the Commissioners of Excise, that
there should be inserted in the license the number of
copies of which the edition for which it was granted
should consist. Few of the editions for which license
was then granted were published before January, 1844 ;
and hence it is only from the latter date that a correct
account of the number of copies can be given. From
January, 1844, to January, 1845, sixteen editions of the
Bible were published, consisting in round numbers, of
two hundred thousand copies. From January, 1845, to
January, 1846, twenty-one editions were published, the
number of copies amounting to 312,000. From January,
1846, to May, 1846, five editions, consisting of upwards
of 47,000 copies, have been published ; and there are
several editions now under the judgment of the board.
From a return made to Parliament by your Majesty's
late printers, for the years 1831-1836 inclusive, it ap-
pears that the largest number of Bibles printed by them
in any one of those years amounted to only 105,600,
while the average yearly number for the period speci-
fied fell short of 80,000. The increase, therefore, in the
number of Bibles annually printed in Scotland at the
present time, as compared with the yearly number
printed from 1831 to 1837, considerably exceeds the
ratio of three to one. The great increase which has re-
sulted from the abolition of the monopoly is placed in a
still more imposing point of view when we revert to the
fact, that the number of Bibles printed under the su-
perintendence of the Scotch Board during the year end-
ing January, 1846, exceeds the total number printed by
authority in Great Britain during either of the years
1832, 1833. In the former of these years, the number of
Bibles printed in Great Britain was 234,420, and in the
latter 303,796. The largest number printed in Great
Britain in any one year, from 1831 to 1837, was 450,778.
But the increase in the number of Bibles printed is
not more remarkable nor more gratifying than the
greatly reduced price at which copies of the inspired
volume are sold. It is undeniably to the reduction of
price which free competition has effected, that the in-
creased circulation is to be attributed. On comparing a
catalogue of Bibles, New Testaments, Psalm and Prayer
Books, &c., published by your Majesty's late printers
in 1838, about a year before the expiry of their patent,
with another published by the same parties in 1845, a
great reduction of price will be found to have been made
on every edition of the Bible sold by them. For exam-
ple, the quarto Bible, with Blayney's marginal refer-
ences, pica letter, royal paper, including Psalms and
Paraphrases, has been reduced from 11. Is. 3d. to lls.;
the octavo Bible, small pica letter, royal paper, with
Psalms and Paraphrases, from Bs. 3d. to 4s. 4d.; the
12mo. Bible, nonpariel, crown paper, with Psalms and
fromp2ssa.Bds an.tod
Paraphrases,ls.;andthe from 2s. 3d.
24m0. Bible,
letter,
with lm
editions in which the greatest reduction of
has been made are the 12mo. nonpareil and the
m
pearl,
the cost of the former having been reduced
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.d as
the latter nearly 65 per cent. The editions
now noticed are those in most frequent use.
From the extensive sale of the 12mo. and 24m0. Bibles,
the saving effected by their greatly reduced cost amounts
to a very large sum. It may be inferred from the fre-
quency with which the same publishers undertake new
editions of these works that the sale keeps pace with the
publication. Proceeding on this assumption, there were
sold of the two Bibles during the year 1844-5, 12mo.
53,000, and 24m0. 138,000. The saving on the former,
for this year, comparing the price with those of 1838,
amounted to upwards of 2,8701., and on the latter to
about 10,0621., making a total saving on the two of no
less a sum than 12,9324 In 1845-6 the number sold
were, 12mo. 26,000, and 24m0. 190,000 ; and the saving
effected amounted to upwards of 15,8044 The wkole
The above calculations have been made according to
the reduced prices given in the price catalogue, pub-
iftzzi,n473grse two Bibles, for the two years, was there-
fore
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publishedprinterspa yin, Septembercolds tFebruary,rem
the cost prices of the Bibles which have now been speci-
fied are still further reduced. In this list, the 12mo.
bible is offered at 100., and the 24m0. at 6d., being a
reduction from the prices of 1838, on the former of 58,
and on the latter of nearly 76 per cent. Whether an
inferior quality of paper be used in these astonishingly
cheap editions, the board pretend not to determine.
They are printed in a elear and distinct type.
Nuw TESTAMENTS.—Of the New Testament there
have been published, under the authority of the board,
459ix0t,0L0
since May, 1842, seventy-five editions. Twenty-four
editions were published in the year ending J
number of,co copies amount
editions were published,
the
: r have beenP •
There published
ing to upwards of 285,000.
since January last three editions,
consisting of 36,000
cloBp4ise,s.andlncotnhseistyecel,ar in round
January, 1846,
copies; and one edition is now before the board. The
largest number printed by your Majesty's late printers,
in any of the years from 1831 to 1837, was 105,840, and
the annual average for the six years did not much ex-
ceed 79,000. The largest number printed by authority
in Great Britain, during any of the years now specified,
was 534,450, and the least, 250,259.
The New Testaments most in use are thr.: I2mo.
brevier, and the 24m0. minion. On comparin% the price
catalogues issued by your Majesty's late prrders for the
years 1838 and 1845, it appears that the, price of the
former has been reduced about 41 per gent.,
the latter exactly 50 per cent. In ti',e Coldstream price
list, the cost of the 12mo. New Testament has been re-
duced nearly 55 per cent. In ~he same list the price
affixed to the minion 181 no. I`74ew Testament, with pearl
Psalms, is 3id., while in 183 S, the 24m0. New Testament,
minion letter with pearl Psalms, cost 10d. and that of
METRICAL PSALMS.--Since May, 1842, ninety•five
superintendenceepdf
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which the number of copies amounted to upwards of
204,000 ; and since January last, nine, containing an
aggregate of 96,000 copies. The editions of the Psalms,
published separately, however, by no means exhibit the
full amount of the annual shares. It frequently happens
that, in the licenses taken out by publishers for editions
of the Bible or New Testament,the Psalms are included.
This arrangement, inasmuch as the return 'lade to Par-.
liament by your Majesty's late printers„,,for the years