DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle of Life. London: John Murray 1859. 8vo-sized 12mo, original green blind-stamped ripple-grained cloth, spine gilt, Freeman variant "a", uncut, brown endpapers, original binders' ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear pastedown; ends of spine, the top of upper and lower joint and the corners worn, half-title and title-leaf with vertical crease, edges of leaves slightly darkened, short repaired tear in B1, green quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, half-title, folding lithographed diagram by W. West. Freeman 373; Grolier English 96; Grolier/Horblit 23b ("THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SCIENTIFIC WORK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY"); Dibner Heralds of Science 199; PMM 344(b). Provenance : G.W.H. Taylor, Helsington Parsonage, nr. Kendal, Westmoreland, ink inscription dated June 1860 on front free endpage.
DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle of Life. London: John Murray 1859. 8vo-sized 12mo, original green blind-stamped ripple-grained cloth, spine gilt, Freeman variant "a", uncut, brown endpapers, original binders' ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear pastedown; ends of spine, the top of upper and lower joint and the corners worn, half-title and title-leaf with vertical crease, edges of leaves slightly darkened, short repaired tear in B1, green quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, half-title, folding lithographed diagram by W. West. Freeman 373; Grolier English 96; Grolier/Horblit 23b ("THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SCIENTIFIC WORK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY"); Dibner Heralds of Science 199; PMM 344(b). Provenance : G.W.H. Taylor, Helsington Parsonage, nr. Kendal, Westmoreland, ink inscription dated June 1860 on front free endpage.
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