On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1861. Third edition, seventh thousand. 8vo. xx, 538 pp. Later green half straight grain morocco for Hatchards, green cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the foot, marbled endpapers with the bookplate of a Laurence Currie to the front pastedown, top edge gilt. Folding table. Light rubbing to the extremities, an attractive copy. Freeman, 381. First published 1859, this edition includes a leaf detailing alterations from the second edition and also the historical sketch for the first time in a Murray edition. The latter had originally appeared in a shortened form in the first German edition and subsequently in the fourth American printing (both 1860). Item #49837
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