Orchids [2d ed.] will soon be published.
1000 more copies of Descent [2d ed.] will soon have to be printed, so CD could send any alterations to be made in the plates.
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Orchids [2d ed.] will soon be published.
1000 more copies of Descent [2d ed.] will soon have to be printed, so CD could send any alterations to be made in the plates.
Sends cheques in payment of CD’s share of profits on Cross and self-fertilisation, now nearly exhausted,
and the latest printing of Origin.
Murray’s will not announce CD’s new work [Forms of flowers] until informed to do so.
JM will be pleased to publish the new work [Forms of flowers] on the usual terms. MS has been sent to the printer.
Explains the delay in publishing [Forms of flowers].
"Young Mr Appleton", when in London, told Murray’s to send a set of stereotype plates [of Forms of flowers]. A printing of 1000 copies has been ordered for the English edition.
Electrotypes of woodcuts [of Forms of flowers] are ready for Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Murray has printed 1250 copies, instead of 1000 as planned.
About 150 copies remain of Forms of flowers.
Another issue of Origin will be needed for Murray’s annual sale. Has CD any corrections?
Electrotypes and heliotypes can now be sent to Hjalmar Linnström, since payment is guaranteed by the Swedish Consul.
Two thousand more copies of Origin to be printed. Has CD any corrections to make?
Type for Cross and self-fertilisation, Orchids, and Forms of flowers must now be broken up. If CD does not object, Murray will have stereotypes made of the three works. Asks for any corrections CD may want embodied.
Answers CD’s query about number of copies of Origin recently printed. Order to print 2000, rather than 1000, was given after JM’s annual sales showed demand was keeping up.
Cross and self-fertilisation will be stereotyped after CD’s corrections have been made.
Printer will be asked to keep type of Forms of flowers standing, for the present.
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.