The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to Sex
DARWIN, Charles
Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Twenty-Seventh Thousand.
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
Published: John Murray, 1890
Stock code: 48042
Price: £220.00
8vo., Second Edition, Twenty-Seventh Thousand, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, free endpapers lightly spotted; original arches-style green cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, patterned endpapers, uncut, upper board lightly age-marked, joints very lightly rubbed, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
With nineteenth-century personal bookplate on front paste-down. The second edition, first published in 1874, is divided into three parts instead of the two of the first, sexual selection in relation to man being separated off as a third part. The printing of 1877 (the twelfth thousand) has added at the end, pp. 620-624, a supplemental note reprinted from 'Nature' of 2 November 1876, p.18. This is the definitive text of the work, reproduced in the present edition. The Descent of Man is notable as the first of Darwin's works to contain (on p.1 of the Introduction in this edition) the word 'evolution' (see Freeman, p.30). Freeman, 268.