History of Bengali Language and Literature c11.s2.76

c11.s2.76

that even, at the wrong estimate of the cost of a punch as 5s. whereas it was really a guinea. Considering the enormous expenditure on printing as also the very limited sale of Bengali books, we should not be surprised at the high price set on many of the books of this period; for instance Mitter's Bengali Dictionary was published in 1801, "equal to an 8vo of 50 pages"; the price was Rs. 32. Tara Chand Chakravarty's Anglo Bengali Dictionary; pages 25, price Rs. 6. "The original price of Kriṣṇa Chandra Charita by Rajiva Lochana Rs. 5 only for 120 pages. It barely paid its expenses then, so limited was the demand for Bengali books."