Letter from Megaw to Schaeffer on publications of the excavationsArthur Hubert Stanley Megaw

Printed: DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, CYPRUS.

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I think your proposal of 1 author copy and 50 offprints for each contributor should meet the case (English Journals only give 25 copies now). I should add that, in consideration of any subsidy it pays, the Cyprus Government would expect a certain number of copies of the whole book. These would be used to exchange with books acquired for the Department's Library and as complimentary presentation copies.

In conclusion, I suggest that when you have decided what publisher would serve us best you send me a summary of his proposals including such estimates and calculations as are necessary to show how any contribution payable by the Cyprus Government is arrived at - if it is a question of subsidised publication. If you prefer the method of paying for the whole initial cost, I shall have to be able to point out what amount we would receive from sales to set against the sum advanced. As you know the Cyprus Government has limited its final commitment on all publications arising from the joint-expedition to £500, after allowance is made for such receipts.

For your calculations you will wish to know what Dikaios' two contributions will amount to. So far as these can be estimated now, they will require the following approximately if the "Missions en Chypre" format is as follows:

Pages of text - 30 including - Text figures - 6 Separate plates -10 [handwritten: (maximum)]

The bad weather continues - to-day snows throughout the Island, and until it improves Dikaios will be unable to resume study of the remains he has uncovered. So I fear there will be some further delay before he can let you have the communication he has promised you.

I should like to leave the arrangements for finding I general in your hands - as initiator of the venture and the only whose work most of this volume will concern. Yet am open invited to here are my comment. I agree to printing whereever it can be arranged best, but costs will have to be taken into account as well as speed. I have a fair idea of costs at Oxford as 'Hellenika' is being printed there. They are rather expensive; would Paris be cheaper? The Oxford Press Printer likes you to pay for the whole cost and then turn the books over to their publishing side, who give you the proceeds from sales, less their commission, as they come in. The alternative is to get a publisher to take over the whole business of printing and sales and pay him a subsidy amounting to the difference between cost of production and probable receipts from sales. I presume there would be some such difference. On what basis would a French publisher undertake it?

Handwritten: Yours sincerely,

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YCS.