From R. F. Cooke 3 March 1880
50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.
March 3 1880
My dear Sir
As you are aware we printed 1000 copies of the Life of Erasmus Darwin.1 By sales & presentations about 700 copies have been disposed of & we have the residue in our Warehouse & I am sorry to there is little or no demand for it, so that the prospect of a reprint is dismal. There is another matter I wish to mention.
We have still the type standing of your volume on Forms of Plants & Flowers & Messrs. Clowes write to ask if they make distribute it, as they want some of the type.2
We have about 25 copies remaining.
Would you like to send any corrections, have them made & then print off 250 copies & set the type loose?
I trust you have been keeping well this winter.
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Chas. Darwin Esqr
Footnotes
Bibliography
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
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.
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.
Summary
Three hundred copies of Erasmus Darwin remain from the 1000 printed. Demand is small.
Should 250 copies of Forms of flowers be printed before type is distributed?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12506
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 503
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12506,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12506.xml
