[DARWIN, CHARLES]. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1878.
SIXTH EDITION, with additions and corrections [twentieth thousand - stated]. Cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (19cm x 12cm x 4m), pp. xxi, 458. Bound in publisher's original green cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind-panelled covers, brown coated endpapers, half-title present, folding chart between p.90-p91, glossary and index to rear. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, Stamford Street and Charing Cross. W. Bone & Son binder's ticket to corner of rear pastedown. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete, binding secure and square, slight bumping to spine ends, edges and points sharp, covers remarkably clean, interior well-preserved with some foxing to endpapers. An excellent copy and scarce thus.
