[1] Price was a sub-commissioner of the Public Record Commission, and helped Benjamin Thorpe with his Ancient Laws and Institutes of England (1840).
As a scholar of northern European literature, he had a reputation with Jacob Grimm, Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin and Edgar Taylor.
The long preface was reprinted in the editions of Richard Taylor (1840) and William Carew Hazlitt (1871).
Price incorporated notes of George Ashby, Francis Douce, Thomas Park and Joseph Ritson, also adding some of his own.
[1] In 1830 Price revised and brought up to date, in four volumes, Edward Christian's edition of Blackstone's Commentaries of 1809.