Descripción

2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, Seventh Thousand, with 43 illustrations in the text, some very occasional underlining (mainly in pencil), a little light spotting to the first several leaves of each volume; original arches-style binding of green cloth, gilt backs, chocolate endpapers, uncut, backstrips lightly chafed (without loss) at heads and tails, lower joints mildly rubbed and a little tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (April, 1889) bound in at end of second volume as called for. First published in 1868, Darwin's longest work was extensively revised for the second edition of 1875 which became the final text. It is especially notable for containing (in Chapter XXVII) the first statement of the author's provisional hypothesis of pangenesis. No publisher in England other than Murray has ever printed this important work. Freeman (Darwin), 241; Freeman (BNHB), 910.