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.
Three hundred copies of Erasmus Darwin remain from the 1000 printed. Demand is small.
Should 250 copies of Forms of flowers be printed before type is distributed?
His publishers are as puzzled as CD about what the title of his new book [Movement in plants] should be. Sends a tentative one in proof [missing].
Matters related to Climbing plants
and reprint [1880] of Forms of flowers.
Movement in plants will be 600 pages. Does CD wish to publish at own expense or on the usual terms with Murray? Estimates expense of printing and possible profit.
RC estimates that 1000 copies of Movement in plants if sold at 14s would produce a profit of £6. Might more be printed, or the price raised?
Has CD made arrangements with D. Appleton for Movement in plants? CD’s instructions about the index have been forwarded.
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.
If every copy [of Movement in plants] is sold at 15s, CD will lose about £50.
Six hundred copies of Movement in plants were wanted [at Murray’s annual sale] – a good start.
Movement in plants needs only the index. Distressed by CD’s dissatisfaction with the indexer.
Eight hundred copies have now been sold. Type will be kept up.
Decision on printing additional copies should await reviews.
Murray’s must reprint Descent. Does CD want to make any corrections in the plates?
Five hundred more copies of Movement in plants must be printed immediately. Asks CD to send any corrections to printer.
Murray’s will be happy to publish [Earthworms] on usual terms of two-thirds profits.