The details of the magnificent bargain have been handed down, and give the pecuniary measure of Pope's reputation.
The Iliad was to be published in six volumes.

For each volume Lintot was to pay 200_l._; and, besides this, he was to supply Pope gratuitously with the copies for his subscribers.

The subscribers paid a guinea a volume, and as 575 subscribers took 654 copies, Pope received altogether 5320_l._ 4_s._ at the regular price, whilst some royal and distinguished subscribers paid larger sums.

By the publication of the Odyssey Pope seems to have made about 3500_l._ more,[6] after paying his assistants.
The result was, therefore, a total profit at least approaching 9000_l._ The last volume of the Odyssey did not appear till 1726, and the payments were thus spread over eleven years.

Pope, however, saved enough to be more than comfortable.