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GREGORY, OLINTHUS. 1774-1841. GREGORY PONDERS A NEW EDITION OF THE MECHANICS.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Olinthus Gregory"), suggesting the terms for a new edition of his A Treatise of Mechanics...,
Autograph Letter Signed ("Olinthus Gregory"), suggesting the terms for a new edition of his A Treatise of Mechanics...,
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GREGORY, OLINTHUS. 1774-1841.
GREGORY PONDERS A NEW EDITION OF THE MECHANICS.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Olinthus Gregory"), suggesting the terms for a new edition of his A Treatise of Mechanics..., 2 pp recto and verso, 4to, Woolrich, February 11, 1814, to George Wilkie, with integral autograph address leaf, some creasing and toning, especially to address leaf, leaf pressed.
Provenance: Sold Maggs Bros. catalog no. 601, 1934.
Gregory, a longtime mathematics instructor at the Royal Military Academy, published the first edition of A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive, in 1806. The work is a discussion of the principles of mathematics and physics up to the time of publication; the second edition was released in 1807, and by the time of this letter (1814), Gregory was ready to release a new edition. Here he writes publisher George Wilkie proposing the financial terms upon which the book should be printed: "A new edition of 1500 would, I know, when all sold, produce a clear profit of more than L600, as there would not be more than 2 or 3 new plates: and to half of this I should be entitled, when the edition was sold off. But in lieu of doing this, and receiving something for the preparation of the edition, I should prefer engaging to prepare a new edition, to correct the proofs, and to give up my share of the profits of that edition, for a certain sum to be paid on the publication of the said new edition ... the sum I propose is Two Hundred Pounds." Wilkie must have agreed to Gregory's terms, as the third edition was printed by him and his partners in 1815.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Olinthus Gregory"), suggesting the terms for a new edition of his A Treatise of Mechanics..., 2 pp recto and verso, 4to, Woolrich, February 11, 1814, to George Wilkie, with integral autograph address leaf, some creasing and toning, especially to address leaf, leaf pressed.
Provenance: Sold Maggs Bros. catalog no. 601, 1934.
Gregory, a longtime mathematics instructor at the Royal Military Academy, published the first edition of A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive, in 1806. The work is a discussion of the principles of mathematics and physics up to the time of publication; the second edition was released in 1807, and by the time of this letter (1814), Gregory was ready to release a new edition. Here he writes publisher George Wilkie proposing the financial terms upon which the book should be printed: "A new edition of 1500 would, I know, when all sold, produce a clear profit of more than L600, as there would not be more than 2 or 3 new plates: and to half of this I should be entitled, when the edition was sold off. But in lieu of doing this, and receiving something for the preparation of the edition, I should prefer engaging to prepare a new edition, to correct the proofs, and to give up my share of the profits of that edition, for a certain sum to be paid on the publication of the said new edition ... the sum I propose is Two Hundred Pounds." Wilkie must have agreed to Gregory's terms, as the third edition was printed by him and his partners in 1815.