How much would it cost to buy enough paper for a play during Shakespeare's time?

Question

"In Shakespeare's time, a single sheet of paper cost more than a loaf of bread."

Answer 1

"In Shakespeare's time, a single sheet of paper cost more than a loaf of bread."
Although this line is repeated a number of times on the internet, on the face of it, it is absurd. Just think of the difference in effort in making and in cost of ingredients between paper (rags and wood pulp) and bread (wheat, yeast, fire to bake, constant attention)
The quote below from the site given, states that in 1627, shortly after Shakespeare's death, a man paid 21 shillings (a guinea) for a First Folio edition, which could buy 46 loaves of bread at the time. Further up in the article, it states that fhe First Folio had 907 pages. Taking a page to mean one side of printing, the Folio had 454 leaves printed both sides and Folio means that the original sheet of paper was folded once for use (just as quarto means it was folded twice, into quarters.) so about 227 sheets of paper were needed per book. Leaving aside the cost of printing (a lot of labor), at 46 loaves for 227 sheets, paper was just under 5 sheets to the loaf. Some production costs are given in the article as 6s 8p a copy or under 1/3 the guinea price, which gets us up to 16-17 sheets to the loaf. And if the paper is as much as half the cost of printing, that doubles to 32-34 sheets to the loaf. So much for a sheet of paper costing more than a loaf of bread.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,590227,00.html
"Assuming that Buxton bought his first copy of the First Folio new and unbound for 15s., his total outlay on finally securing a satisfactory Shakespeare First Folio was a guinea - the same amount of money that he and his wife, setting up house in Norfolk in 1629, spent at Stourbridge fair on a close-stool, a pan and a preserving pan, and just a shilling more than they laid out on equipping themselves with four useful skillets.

For the same sum, according to West's figures, the Buxtons could have bought 46 loaves of bread,"