Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital.

  • London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye
Date:
1818
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Credit: Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    [G] page 39. ^opy of Inquiry made by Letter addressed by Dr, Farre to Messrs. Longman and Co, who published Mr. Saunders* posthumous work, Mr. Saunders' pesthumous work consists of 8 plates, and 216 pages of letter-press, besides 43 pages of in- troductory matter. Of this work Mr. Saunders had prepared for publication three figures, constituting a part only of one plate, and 48 pages of letter-press.— 1st. What, then, gentlemen, would you have given for that part of the work which the author had prepared ? 2dly. Of that work, as completed by the editor,750 copies were published, and all the expenses were defrayed by your house. At the end of eighteen months, 631 out of the 750 copies were sold, and a profit of £134 was paid to Mrs. Colkett, besides £50 for the copyright. Is the above sale in respect to the number sold, to the actual produce of £184, a favourable or unfavourable one ? Was it possible to have made this work more productive ? 3dly. The work was published both in a cheap and an expensive form—with plain and with coloured plates. Do me the favour to state which of the two was preferred by the profession, and which afforded the greatest profit to Mrs Colkett?