1835ref. 037486London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green And Longmans 1835. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Frontispiece Illustrated Title Page Illustrations In Text. Viii 688 Pp. Full Year With "Corrections" On Last Page. Recent Full Green Cloth Red Morocco Spine Label Retaining Original Preliminary And Final Blanks. Articles By Edward Blyth At Pp 40 "An Attempt To Classify The 'Varities' Of Animals." P. 198 "A Few Remarks On Hybrids." P. 325 "Observations On The Cuckoo" P. 364 " A Notice Of A Very Remarkable Individual Of The Common Shrike."; Charles Waterton P. 166 251 322 361 453 451 663; W. J. Clarke P. 1 "On Certain Meteoric Phenomena"; Etc. The Blyth Article Is The First Extended Discussion Of The Basic Principles Of Natural Selection; Darwin Read Blyth's Work Carefully And Was A Friend Of Blyth; Loren Eiseley's "Darwin And The Mysterious Mr. X" Is An Account Of Their Relationship With Some Errors But Generally Correct. Binding As New; Preliminary And Final Blanks With Browning And Light Chipping At Corners; Contents Fine Clean Square Unworn. No Names Or Marks. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, And Longmans hardcover

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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,. or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Fifth Thousand. [Second Edition, Second Issue]. BRIGHT, FRESH COPY OF THE SECOND 'ORIGIN'

18608vo., Fifth Thousand, [Second Edition, Second Issue], with folding diagram, neat contemporary signature in pencil at head of title, with second pencilled signature lower down, front free endpaper a little chafed at fore-edge, three or four small fox-spots each on half-title, title and diagram; original green cloth, boards elaborately blocked in blind, gilt back, , brown endpapers, uncut, expertly recased with original endpapers preserved, a remarkably bright, fresh copy in minimally restored publisher's binding. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (dated January, 1860) bound in at end, and the binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down. The second edition, second issue is not so named on title but simply labelled 'Fifth Thousand'; Freeman records that 3000 copies were printed following the 1250 copies of the first edition. Although Darwin considered this edition a rapid revision to meet demand, his changes are much more than mere correction. 'The total number [of changes] in this edition is impressive enough. No chapter was untouched' (Peckham). The most famous alteration is the dilution of the whale bear passage on p.184, which Darwin later regretted although he never restored it. With the signed and ruled advertisements which Freeman considers the first issue. Freeman 113 variant a; Freeman F376.