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To R. F. Cooke   10 April [1874]

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Is glad to have Descent cheaper and sold more largely, but would be sorry to see it printed like the Origin. "The closeness of the lines is the great fault." Fears book might be very thick. "I hear scores of people complaining of the heavy and thick books which you publish."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:  10 Apr [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 291
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9402

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  • 1874 ( letter from R.  F.  Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Origin 6th ed.  had been published with smaller type and a plainer binding. CD refers to the sixth edition of Charles Lyell’ …

From R. F. Cooke   12 November 1874

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New edition of Descent just off the press. Murray feels price must be 9s instead of 12s, if it is to sell. This will reduce profit to almost nil.

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1874
Classmark:  DAR 171: 442
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9717

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  • letter to Athenæum , 1 January 1867 and n.  1). John Murray was the publisher of Origin 6th ed.  and the second edition of Charles Lyell’s The student’s elements of geology ( C.  Lyell 1874 ). …
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