Letter 4233

Easter Munday. Mr Wanley, I am glad to hear from you, and to finde you are well, and that you are in employment, wch I hope is good, tho you do not tell me. I have orderd 6 copies of my Book to be delivered to Mr Calloye against Bedford house, and I shall wait for your procurement of my mony at the time appointed. At your leisure, consider a little of what I am about to propose. Through the faileur of subscriptions, even of those who had promisd a great number of my copies do remain on my hand, about 200. I have letters from Holland and France which let me know that they are well approved abroad, wch makes me think they woud pass off well in Exchange for forreigne Books: and that therfore: it might be the interest of some Bookseller to take of all my copies and make them entirely his own, that so no man might knoe them but only from him. And when the Latine copies are …… well gon off from him, it might again be his interest to turn it into English for our English gentry, in wch you would be the fittest person for him to Employ And if turned into English, I have added many Additions and made some good Emendations wch I shall upon that occasion willingly comunicate And to all this I further say, that he shall have the use of my copper plates wch did cost me much mony, and would cost him the …. if he were to engrave them [….]. I can also supply one new plate about the business of the [Tartars?] above china, and another about the Plant Ribas, wch is a rarity unknown to our Botanists, who will there be soe [the?] …… of their [anywhere?] about it. Dr Ch…. had lately with him some London Bookseller who was desirous of some of my Books by way of exchange and bes… mr [Slon?] [fast?] to [our?] about it. To wch I answered consentingly if they were such Books as would be […]… off by the […]… library, […] not else re.[…] friend Tho. Hyde My wife is now in London at …. …….. in Bridges street co..nt.a…. If only man shall wish …for the whole number he shall have found abatement from the ….. ….