From R. F. Cooke 10 August 1875
50A, Albemarle St. | W.
Augt. 10. 1875
My dear Sir
Mr Clowes1 has been here today with his specimens of type for “Variations” & I now enclose them to you.
The page of No 1 is in the same type as “Insectivorous Plants”, but is wider & less spaced out, so as to get in more.2
I am inclined myself to No 2, if you dont dislike the various types.
As to “Climbing Plants” I suppose we had better keep it up in type & print off 1500 No, taking off a set of stereotypes for Appletons.3
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Chas Darwin Esq
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Climbing plants 2d ed.: The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Climbing plants: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green; Williams & Norgate. 1865.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Encloses specimens of type for Variation [2d ed.].
Thinks Climbing plants [2d ed.] had better be kept in type; 1500 copies to be printed, with stereotypes to be made for Appleton.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10113
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 464
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10113,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10113.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23