From R. F. Cooke   16 July 1875

50A, Albemarle Street, London, W.

July 16 1875

My dear Sir

As you know we printed 1250 Copies of your new work to begin with & since then a reprint of 1000 copies, to be ready for the binder on Monday next, & when they are bound up lo & behold they are all bespoke.!!!1

We are therefore sending the work to press again with 750 Copies, making up in all 3000 Copies.

All of which we hope has your approval. Have you discovered any errors of the press.

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

Chas. Darwin Esq

Mudie’s Library took 100 & have come for 50 more so it is reading well2

Simpkin & Co subscribed for 250 & have now doubled their order3

1
On the first and second printings of Insectivorous plants, see the letter from R. F. Cooke, 3 July 1875, and the letter to R. F. Cooke, 4 July [1875] and n. 2.
2
Mudie’s Select Library was a large commercial library that lent books to subscribers by post (EB).
3
Simpkin, Marshall and Company was a wholesale firm that purchased large quantities of books and supplied other booksellers in London and the provinces (Feather 2006, p. 95).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10071,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10071