Reprint of Origin will bring number to 19500 – so title-page may safely read "Twentieth Thousand".
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Reprint of Origin will bring number to 19500 – so title-page may safely read "Twentieth Thousand".
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.
Asks CD’s opinion on number of copies to be printed of Cross and self-fertilisation [2d ed.]. Now that it is revised, they will stereotype.
Type of Forms of flowers stands, awaiting CD’s corrections, before stereotyping and printing of more copies.
RC regrets delay in supply of Origin.
Sends report on annual trade sale [missing]. New printings of Journal of researches and Descent are needed.
Murray’s offer to publish Erasmus Darwin. RC states terms and preliminary arrangements.
On cost of the portrait of Dr Darwin, for Erasmus Darwin.
Asks CD what title to put on spine of Erasmus Darwin. Suggests 7s 6d as the price.
Asks whether enclosure [missing] has the correct title of Insectivorous plants.
Sends first copy of Insectivorous plants to CD. Price must be 15s.
Agrees to price Insectivorous plants at 14s.
Has CD quoted a price for stereotype plates to D. Appleton?
CD’s pessimistic view [of prospective sale of Insectivorous plants] is to blame for the small printing. Murray’s printed only 1250 copies and sold 1700. A thousand more have been ordered.
The second printing of 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants] has sold out. Will print 750 more [3000 in all]. Mudie’s Library and Simpkin & Co. have ordered more copies.
Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.
RC will confer with printer about type, etc., for reprint of Variation.
Only 250 copies remain of [2d ed. of] Descent – will print 1000 more for annual sale.
Expression does not move.
Murray is willing to make same arrangement with D. Appleton for Climbing plants as for Insectivorous plants.
There will be no difficulty about corrections for reprint of Descent, providing new matter fills same space as old.
Giovanni Canestrini should be reminded that before any plates for another of CD’s books can be sent, payment must be made for those already sent.
Sends papers concerned with [copyright?] registration for French and German editions [of Insectivorous plants].
Encloses specimens of type for Variation [2d ed.].
Thinks Climbing plants [2d ed.] had better be kept in type; 1500 copies to be printed, with stereotypes to be made for Appleton.
It would be an advantage to start printing vol. 1 of Variation [2d ed.] at once, if CD can release it. Knotty problem: the number of copies to be printed.
The two volumes of Variation [2d ed.] are unequal in size. Can CD reduce vol. 2 and increase vol. 1?
Does CD wish to publish Climbing plants [2d ed.] at once?