THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION 1878 CHARLES DARWIN

[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]. Cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (19 x 12 x 4cm), pp. xxi, 458. English text. Bound in publisher's original green cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind-panelled covers, brown coated endpapers, half-title, 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 tight, secure, and square. Very slight bumping to spine ends, the edges and points sharp. Covers remarkably clean. Interior well-preserved with some trivial foxing mostly to endpapers. Prize plate to front pastedown. An excellent copy and scarce thus.