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To John Murray   4 September [1870]

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Variation is a much better looking volume than Origin due to quality of paper and binding. Hopes JM will attend to this point in Descent. Printers have sent "splendid lot" of proofs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  4 Sept [1870]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 211)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7316

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  • John Murray, 6 August [1870] . The first five editions of Origin were bound in textured cloth, whereas Variation had smooth covers (see R.  B.  Freeman 1977 , p.  123) and was printed on heavier paper. The sixth edition of Origin (published in 1872) …

To John Murray   3 June [1871]

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Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.

Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  3 June [1871]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 246–7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7798

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  • 1872, p.  143). CD’s informant was William Boyd Dawkins (see letter from W.  B.  Dawkins, 23 February 1871 ). Origin 5th ed. William Clowes & Sons were printers to John Murray . …
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