From R. F. Cooke 1 August 1872
Summary
Answers CD’s questions on arrangements for forthcoming publication of Expression – including cost of stereotypes, woodcuts, and photo reproductions for foreign translations.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 411 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8444 |
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- … above the £30. ? A set of Electros of the woodcuts I think we might charge £10, as Cooper’ …
- … 30 March 1872 ). Eduard Friedrich Koch of the Stuttgart publishing firm E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung had requested a formal authorisation for the German translation by Julius Victor Carus (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 29 July 1872 ). CD did not charge for translation rights, but he sometimes asked for a percentage of the profits (see, for example, letter to V. O. Kovalevsky, 10 …
From Robert Francis Cooke 5 December 1870
Summary
Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 382 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387 |
From R. F. Cooke 19 October 1880
Summary
Cost of electrotypes from the woodcuts [in Movement in plants] for French and German editions. Suggests CD charge more than actual cost in order to repay his expenses.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 509 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12765 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10. But really you should make these foreign publishers pay more for at the usual rate of charging per inch &c they w d . be over £40. Suppose you mentioned £20. We have a set now ready to go to Stuttgart & sh d . like to know your feelings as to the German Translation also. We thought of charging them £25 or £30. …
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| Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| John Murray | (3) |
