Charles Darwin: His Life told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of his Published Letters
( Charles DARWIN ) DARWIN (ed.), Francis
New [Abridged] Edition.
NEAR FINE COPY
Published: John Murray, 1902
Stock code: 31334
Price: £88.00
8vo., [Fifth Edition], with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure toned in sepia (original tissue guard present) and a full-page facsimile (of Darwin's holograph) in the text, endpapers very lightly browned; original green decorative cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, fore-edge faintly spotted else a near fine copy.
The abridged version of Francis Darwin's life of his father (the fourth edition of the 'Life and Letters' overall) first appeared in 1892. Freeman states that this New Edition includes an addition to the preface. The portrait frontispiece is engraved from the famous study by Mrs. Cameron. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman (Darwin), 351.