From R. F. Cooke 1 December 1877
50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.
Decr. 1 1877
My dear Sir
The present edition of “Origin” which we are just exhausting makes in all 17500 Copies.
Therefore the reprint of 2000 more will be 19500 & we may safely say on the Title page Twentieth Thousand.1
Messrs. Clowes will be able to keep up Forms of Flowers for some months longer & when we have sold off all our present copies I will remind you.2
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Forms of flowers 2d ed.: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880.
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
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.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Reprint of Origin will bring number to 19500 – so title-page may safely read "Twentieth Thousand".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11264
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 498
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11264,” accessed on 26 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11264.xml