WCP5086

Letter (cc) (WCP5086.5565)

[1]1

7th June [1]901

D[octo]r. A. R. Wallace.

Dear Sir,

We are sending you today the complete pulls of blocks,2 as far as we can complete them if they are not already so, and the coloured plate. No proofs are possible of coloured photo work; & this print is an exact reproduction of the original you saw & approved.

We enclose letters from [MS blotted] of 11th & 21 July last [MS damaged] of[?] astronomical[?] observations[?] He had much difficulty in doing them. We [MS blotted] of their rejection or inclusion, of course, to you.

Yours very truly | Swan Sonn<enschein & Co[mpany].> [MS damaged]

1
The page is stamped "76" and the letter bears no heading, but is signed in the name of ARW's London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co., founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931).
2
Refers to proofs of illustrations for Wallace A. R. (1901). The Wonderful Century Reader London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. This was an abridged version of the 4th edition (February 1901) of The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures, first published in 1898. The engraved boxwood block or woodcut dominated early Victorian book illustration, but electrotyping quickly replaced woodcuts for the production of fine artwork in books. In the second half of the century, most woodblock engravings were actually printed from electrotypes. Reference to electrotypes in production of the Reader first occurs in WCP5066.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP5086,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 11 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5086