From R. F. Cooke   17 November 1874

50a, Albemarle Street, London, W.

Nov 17 1874

My dear Sir

The price of your new edition was highly approved of by the booksellers & at 12/- very few would have been sold.1

1350 Descent 1 Vol 9/-
600 Origin 1 Vol 7/6
136 Naturalist 1 Vol 9/-
7 Expression 1 Vol 12/-2

Yours faithfully | Robt. Cooke

C. Darwin Esq

CD annotations

2.4 7] ‘2093’ added below, ink
1
CD’s publisher, John Murray, had originally intended to charge twelve shillings for Descent 2d ed. but just before his sale dinner for leading booksellers he decided to reduce the price to nine shillings (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874).
2
This is a list of the numbers of CD’s books sold to the leading booksellers at Murray’s sale dinner (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 and n. 4). Naturalist: Journal of researches 2d ed.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9721,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9721