The full title was A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles ; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society ; the 352-page volume, words from A to Ant, cost 12s. 6d ( equivalent to £ 265 for 2010 ) or ( US $ 3. 25 ) at the time.

At this point it was decided to publish the work in smaller and more frequent instalments: once every three months, beginning in 1895, there would now be a fascicle of 64 pages, priced at 2s. 6d.

Darwin had told Murray of working men in Lancashire clubbing together to buy the 5th edition at fifteen shillings and wanted it made more widely available ; the price was halved to 7s 6d by printing in a smaller font.

; that during the present year the Alabama Indemnity has been paid, and the charge of the Ashantee War will be met out of revenue ; and that in estimating, as we can now venture to do, the income of the coming year ( and, for the moment assuming the general scale of charge to continue as it was fixed during the last Session ), we do not fear to anticipate as the probable balance a surplus exceeding rather than falling short of 5, 000, 000l ... The first item ... which I have to set down in the financial arrangements proper for the first year is relief, but relief coupled with reform, of local taxation ... It has ... been the happy fortune of Mr. Lowe to bring it income tax down, first from 6d.

Dr. No was released on 31 March 1958 in the UK as a hardcover edition by publishers Jonathan Cape, priced at 13s 6d.

In England, 1 piece of eight was worth 4s 3d while it was worth 8s in New York, 7s 6d in Pennsylvania and 6s 8d in Virginia.

From this wage, 6d per month was deducted for the maintenance of Greenwich Hospital with similar amounts deducted for the Chatham Chest, the chaplain and surgeon.

The single pension was raised by 12s 6d in March 1965, b y10s in 1967 and by a further 10s in 1969.

From Russia, with Love was released on 8 April 1957 in the UK as a hardcover edition by publishers Jonathan Cape, priced at 13s 6d.

The ferry was mentioned in the household accounts of Edward I ( 1272 – 1307 ): Robert the Ferryman of Putney and other sailors received 3 / 6d for carrying a great part of the royal family across the Thames and also for taking the king and his family to Westminster.

The package was released in the UK on 8 December, in time for the Christmas market, at the sub £ 1 price of 19s 6d ( equivalent to £ today ).

Great Britain's pre-decimal currencies were pounds, shillings, and pence, abbreviated £, s, and d. Thus " nineteen pounds nineteen and six " was £ 19 / 19 / 6d, six pence less than twenty pounds, and " twenty pounds ought and six ", £ 20 / 0 / 6d, is six pence more than twenty pounds.

When the flight of locks finally opened in 1810, allowing the same vessel to navigate the entire canal, the rate of carriage per ton from London to Bath was £ 2 9s 6d.

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was first published in the UK in three hard-backed volumes by Jonathan Cape, each costing 10 shillings 6d.

His estate was valued at £ 3, 228, 2s., 6d.

For example, if bread was 1s 2d a loaf, the wages of a family with two children were topped up to 8s 6d.

* A 6d ( 6 penny ) stamp was issued in 1914.

Letters to the USA was 6d per ½ oz, excluding California and Orgeon, which was 9d per ½ oz.

In 1965, the deposit on a single soda-siphon in England was 7 / 6d ( seven shillings and six pence ).

The 6d coin was permitted to remain in large circulation throughout the United Kingdom due to the London Underground committee's large investment in coin-operated ticketing machines that used it.

Public sector wages and unemployment pay were cut by 10 %, and income tax was raised from 4s 6d to 5s in the pound ( from 22. 5 % to 25 %).

He was responsible for the frame around the image of the Queen on the 1s, 1s 3d and 1s 6d values although his image of the Queen was rejected in favour of a photographic portrait by Dorothy Wilding to which he carried out some modifications by hand.

In 1858 the first perforated stamps were issued in ½d, 3d, and 6d values, depicting Queen Victoria, a beaver and HRH Prince Albert.

The oxidation state + 3 originates from the 6d < sup > 1 </ sup > 7s < sup > 2 </ sup > electronic configuration of actinium, that is it easily donates 3 electrons assuming a stable closed-shell structure of the noble gas radon.

in the £; from April, 1855, to enact it for two more years at 6d.

The cost of construction and five years ' maintenance totalled £ 7, 814 7s. 6d, during which time dues totalling £ 4, 721 19s. 3d had been collected at one penny per ton from passing vessels.

In 1957 the Southern Region of British Railways considered allowing the LNC to sell discounted fares of 7s 6d ( compared to the standard rate of 9s 4d ) for return tickets for same-day travel from London to Brookwood and back.

Little Marvel records were sold exclusively at UK Woolworth's chain stores from 1921 to 1928, at a retail price of 6d ( sixpence ).

In anticipation of the areas surrounding the bridge becoming prosperous suburbs, tolls were set at relatively high rates on a sliding scale, ranging from a penny for pedestrians to 2s 6d for vehicles drawn by six horses.

The old halfpenny was withdrawn from circulation on 31 July 1969, and the half-crown ( 2s 6d ) followed on 31 December to ease the transition.

In 1854 the colony issued 6d and 1 /- stamps printed locally, from plates engraved by Perkins Bacon in England.

); tickets at the Blackfriars ranged from sixpence to two shillings sixpence ( 6d.

Major Martin carried a snapshot of " Pam ", who was actually a clerk in MI5 named Nancy Jean Leslie and later known as Jean Gerard Leigh ( 20 November 1923 – 3 April 2012 ), two love letters, and a jeweller's bill, dated 19 April 1943, from the exclusive S J Phillips Ltd of 113 New Bond Street, for a diamond engagement ring costing £ 53, 10s 6d, a ring that would cost £ today.

A midshipman who became a master's mate got an increase in pay from £ 1 13s 6d to £ 3 16s per month, but initially reduced his chances at a commission.

Trains ran hourly on the half-hour from Spa Road, from 8. 30 am to 5. 30 pm, with a fare to Deptford costing 6d.

Use of generous spacing and the additional text extended the book by 20 %, and the price had to be increased from 7s. 6d.

The earliest register of births, marriages and deaths dates back to 1595 ; the Achdeacon ’ s corrections Books, recording the proceedings of church courts, refer to “ Edward Dutton and Margaret his wife ” being absent from church in 1673 and the churchwardens ’ accounts reveal that 10s 6d ( 52. 5p ) purchased a coffin for Joseph Joynson in 1744.

The Act stipulated that no tax of any sort could be used to finance the bridge, and fixed a scale of tolls, ranging from d for a pedestrian to 2s 6d for a coach drawn by six horses ( about 50p and £ respectively as of ).

Evidence of the popularity of the railway can be seen in that a " bus " service from the Greswolde Hotel in Knowle was provided in the early days of the railway at the high cost of 6d.

The causeway was originally a toll road, and costs for crossing ranged from 1d ( for a person on foot ) to 6d ( for a horse-drawn cart ).

He produced a design for a miniature radio powered by a couple of hearing aid cells and made a deal with Semiconductors to buy its micro-alloy transistors at 6d ( 2½p ) each in boxes of 10, 000.

Weavers who could have expected to earn 15 shillings for a six-day week in 1803, saw their wages cut to 5 shillings or even 4s 6d by 1818.

Due to stabilization of 7s electronic orbitals and destabilization of 6d ones caused by relativistic effects, Cn < sup > 2 +</ sup > is likely to have a 5f < sup > 14 </ sup > 6d < sup > 8 </ sup > 7s < sup > 2 </ sup > electronic configuration, breaking 6d orbitals before 7s one, unlike its homologues.

In 1705, the payment by the Reeve for Shilton manor was £ 34 8s 6d.

In 1847, the ( octagonal ) 1 shilling (£ 0. 05 ) became the first of the British embossed postage stamps to be issued, followed by 10d stamps the following year, and 6d (£ 0. 025 ) values in 1854.

An 1861 recipe by Charles Elme Francatelli does not mention sausages, instead including as an ingredient " 6d.

Application for a light here was first made in 1816 by Lt. Thomas Evans R. N., but several other applications made in 1820 finally resulted in the building of the tower by Trinity House in 1821 at a cost of £ 5, 470 12s 6d plus a further £ 2, 950 16s 7d for the lantern.

Octopussy and The Living Daylights was published in Britain on 23 June 1966 by Jonathan Cape and cost 10s. 6d.

Income tax was held at nine old pence in the pound ( 9d, or 3. 75 %) for incomes less than £ 2, 000, which was equivalent to £ in today's money — but a higher rate of one shilling ( 12d, or 5 %) was proposed for incomes greater than £ 2, 000, and an additional surcharge or " super tax " of 6d ( a further 2. 5 %) was proposed on the amount by which incomes of £ 5, 000 (£ today ) or more exceeded £ 3, 000 (£ today ).