Among the regulations of both the office and the workshop was one forbidding the discussion of religious or political questions. Bearing in mind the variety of nationality of the employees in the establishment, and bearing in mind also the bitterness with which religious and political questions were held at the time of the revolt of the Dutch provinces, a regulation of this kind was certainly sensible enough. Plantin had the reputation of being in his business methods precise and systematic, and the records of his business which have been preserved, present evidence to this effect. He was certainly popular with his employees, although strict and exacting. He accepted, in framing the regulations for the work of the establishment, the coöperation of delegates from his own workmen, and in the few instances in which serious differences of opinion arose, and in the one or two cases of strikes, the difficulties were finally adjusted with the aid of this coöperating committee of the workmen. Of the more popular works published by him, the editions ranged from one thousand to fifteen hundred copies. Of the _Frumentorum Historia_ (issued in 1566) eight hundred copies were printed. Of the sixteenmo edition of _Virgil_, issued in 1564, he printed 2500 copies. An edition of the _Pentateuch_, printed in 1566, comprised 3900 copies, while of the complete _Scriptures_, issued in the succeeding year, the edition was 2500. The selling prices of Plantin’s publications appear low as compared with the prices of to-day, and taking into consideration the necessary limitations of circulation. I quote a few examples selected from the catalogue of 1576. Pocket Classics, for each 6 sheets 1 sou. Octavo Classics, for each 4 sheets 1 sou. Virgil, octavo, 38 leaves 5 sous. Horace, octavo 4 sous. Horace, quarto, 86 leaves 25 sous. Virgil, folio, 165 leaves 3 florins, 5 sous. Euripides (in Greek) 27 leaves 7 sous. Sophocles (in Greek) 14 leaves 6 sous. “Biblia Hebraica” (in Hebrew), octavo, 125 leaves 45 sous. The same in Latin, with the New Testament in Greek, 38 leaves 25 sous. “Corpus Juris Civilis,” for each 3½ leaves 1 sou. “Thesaurus Theutonicæ Lingual,” 70 leaves 30 sous. “Humana Salutis Monumenta,” of Arias Montanus, with 72 plates, quarto, 11½ sheets 3 florins. The “Bible Royale” (a publication on which, as before stated, there was a serious deficiency), price to the public 70 florins. To dealers 60 florins.