The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits
DARWIN, Charles
Fifth Thousand (corrected).
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIFTH THOUSAND
Published: John Murray, 1881
Stock code: 51348
Price: £1,260.00
8vo., Fifth Thousand, with 15 woodcuts (a number full-page) in the text; green arches-style cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, upper hinge just starting (but binding entirely sound) else a near fine copy.
With publisher's advertisment leaf at end. Darwin's final work, reverting to his early geological iterests. First published in October 1881, it was remarkably successful, selling 6,000 copies within the year (a faster sales rate than the 'Origin'). In this fifth impression the errors of the first four are corrected and several new textual changes introduced.VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman (Darwin), 321; see also Freeman (BNHB), 917.