[Footnote 83: When Faust, or Faustus, sold at Paris his
first printed Bibles as manuscripts, the price of a
parchment copy was reduced from four or five hundred to
sixty, fifty, and forty crowns. The public was at first
pleased with the cheapness, and at length provoked by the
discovery of the fraud, (Mattaire, Annal. Typograph. tom. i.
p. 12; first edit.)]