The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
DARWIN, Charles
Sixth Edition, with Additions and Corrections to 1872. (Twenty-Fourth Thousand).
REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FRESH COPY
Published: John Murray, 1882
Stock code: 49299
Price: £980.00
8vo., Sixth Edition, Twenty-Fourth Thousand, with folding diagram, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, blank preliminaries and half-title lightly spotted; original green cloth, boards with Oxford frame in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, firm copy.
With the trade ticket of Gilbert & Field of London on front paste-down. The sixth edition (first issued in 1872) is the last published in Darwin's lifetime and contains his final major corrections and revisions. It is the first edition with the title The Origin of Species, and includes among many other revisions a new chapter inserted to confute the views of the Catholic biologist St. George Mivart. There is a glossary, and the word 'evolution' is used in the text for the first time. This is the earlier of the two issues of M24, published in June with seventeen titles listed on title verso. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman 407.