
          Printing 25 copies——$750.00
500 covers for 25 copies (20 vols each)——200.00
Binding 500 vols at 37 cts ea ——185.00
53 Reams paper at 6.50——344.50
Add 5 Reams more for waste?—— 32.50
Glue, Alcohol, &c say ——20.00
Amt [amount] cost total——$1531.50

Now the sale of 25 copies at $100 for copy
will amount to $2500.00 which if taken in
single volumes at 6% (as many will) the sales
will probably reach at least 2700.00 thus leaving 
a balance for my labor of only $968.50 in the one
estimate, and $1168.50 in the other.

Now, I do the binding myself, and , therefore
save the outlay there of 185.00 as included in
the expense above. I purchase my covers in
Boston of Mess. Dean & Co. Water Street.

I am not a binder nor printer, but can
do both, having bound the vols already out
and set up the tape of about one third of the
book you have, so you see that I am
a "Jack at all trades"!

Again, I expect the State to push
me along a little, and hope to live long
enough to compile a work, which, gives [added: me] more
pleasure and joy than falls to the lot of many
men.

I am under no obligation to give the
State a copy of this work unless they aid me;

        