"MS. note written in Mr. Dawson Turner's transcript of these errors in
the reprint of Shakspeare, edit. 1623.
"The contents of the following pages are the result of 145 days' close
attention by a very industrious man. The knowledge of such a task
having been undertaken and completed, caused some alarm among the
booksellers, who had expended a considerable sum of money upon the
reprint of Shakspeare, of which this MS. discloses the numerous errors.
Fearful, therefore, lest this should be published, they made many
overtures for the purchase of it, and at length Mr. Upcott was induced
to part with it to John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill, from whom he
expected a handsome remuneration; he received a single copy of the
reprint, published at five guineas.
"N.B. This copy, _corrected_ by myself from the above MS., I sold to
James Perry, proprietor of the _Morning Chronicle_, for six guineas:
which at his sale (Part III.) produced 12l. 1s. 6d.