 The first volumes were to be printed in 500 copies and at the next meeting the Council fixed the individual subscription rate as 12 guineas (£12 12s).By the end of the 19th century some 19 volumes had been issued, three of which contained an edition of the "Westminster Missal", given to the abbey by Abbot Nicholas Lytlington, abbot 1362-1386, and builder of the Jerusalem Chamber, where the Society was publicly launched.Other early editions were of the coronation rites of King Charles I (1892), the "Martiloge in Englysshe" (1893), the "Antiphonary of Bangor" (1893–6; from the Ambrosian Library), the "Tracts of Clement Maydeston" (1894), the "Winchester Troper", the "Martyrology of Gorman" (1895; from the Royal Library, Brussels), the "Missal of Robert of Jumièges" (1896; from Rouen public library), the "Irish Liber Hymnorum" (1898; from Trinity College Library, Dublin), the "Rosslyn Missal" (1899; from the Advocates Library, Edinburgh), the "Coronation Book of Charles V of France" (1899; British Library, Cotton Tiberius MS B.VIII), the "Missale Romanum", printed in Milan in 1474 (1899–1907) and the fifteenth-century "Processional of the Nuns of Chester" (1899).