From R. F. Cooke 13 December 1877
50A, Albemarle Street, London. W.
Decr. 13 1877
My dear Sir
Messrs. Clowes have recd. your corrected copy of “Cross & Self Fertilization” & will at once proceed with the corrections & they undertake to adjust the Index also.1
Of this work only 1500 copies have been printed & our very last Trade Sale (Novr.) has quite exhausted them. Most likely yr supposing that 500 more had been taken off arises from the way in may have appeared in the advertisement as 2nd. Thousandth. As the edition is sold out, we have had the a/c made out & now enclose it.2
We printed 1500 No of Climbing Plants in 1875 & paid you £63 for that edition & in June 1876, we printed off 500 more copies & of these we had 450 remaining last June.!!!3
Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke
Chas. Darwin Esq
[Enclosure]
| Dr | Cross & Self Fertilization &c | Cr | |||||||||||||||
| 1876 | 1876 | ||||||||||||||||
| Decr | To Printing | 216 | 13 | 6 | Decr | By 1500 Copies | |||||||||||
| 1500 No | |||||||||||||||||
| " | 47 Rms Paper | 79 | 18 | — | 5 | States Hall4 | |||||||||||
| " | Making Index | 6 | 6 | — | 18 | Allowd Author | |||||||||||
| " | Author for | 140 | — | — | 63 | 40 | Reviews | ||||||||||
| Edition | |||||||||||||||||
| " | Cooper | 12 | 12 | — | 1437 | Sold | viz | ||||||||||
| Engraving5 | |||||||||||||||||
| " | Binding 1500 | 40 | 12 | 6 | 1148 | Trade 25 as 24 | 8/- | 441 | 4 | — | |||||||
| copies | |||||||||||||||||
| " | Advertising | 30 | — | — | 289 | do do do | 8/6 | 118 | 3 | — | |||||||
| " | Comn. Allowd | 8 | 4 | 11 | 1437 | ||||||||||||
| agents | |||||||||||||||||
| " | Balance Profit | 67 | — | 1 | Nov. | By Appleton & Co | 42 | — | — | ||||||||
| (Mr. M.) | for a Set Stereotype | ||||||||||||||||
| plates for America6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 601 | 7 | — | 601 | 7 | — | ||||||||||||
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Seville, Catherine. 1999. Literary copyright reform in early Victorian England: the framing of the 1842 Copyright Act. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Summary
Messrs Clowes will make CD’s corrections and adjust index of Cross and self-fertilisation. Of this work only 1500 copies have been printed. Edition is sold out and account is enclosed.
Of 500 copies of Climbing plants [2d ed.] printed in June 1876, 450 were still unsold as of June 1877.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11278
- From
- Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Albemarle St, 50a
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 499, DAR 210.11: 6
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp † encl 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11278,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11278.xml
