Darwin

Best.-Nr. 3735727 — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Privately Printed 1904. First edition one of 250 copies. 2 volumes 8vo. Half-titles present. Amply illustrated. Original publisher’s cloth with some browning toning and light rubbing. Internally very good and clean with some light foxing to fore-edges. From the library of Dr. George Basalla academic and author. Freeman 1552. Association Copy from Charles Darwin’s Granddaughter Nora Barlow with Laid-in Autograph Slip on Her Letterhead—A Work Dedicated to the Darwin Grandchildren First edition one of only 250 copies privately printed at the Cambridge University Press. An excellent association copy accompanied by a slip on Nora Barlow’s personal letterhead to A. Templeman dated December 27 1933. The University of Cambridge records a letter written by Templeman to to Lady Emma Nora Barlow née Darwin within their holdings. Edited by Henrietta Emma Litchfield A Century of Family Letters assembles the correspondence of Emma Darwin 1808–1896 and her extended family forming a deeply personal record of domestic life at Down House. Although presented as a memoir of Emma the two-volume set contains a substantial number of Charles Darwin’s letters documenting his habits humor and the intimate exchanges that shaped his intellectual and moral outlook. Issued privately for family and friends the edition was explicitly dedicated to Emma Darwin’s grandchildren. Nora Barlow one of the grandchildren to whom the book was dedicated later became the editor of The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1958 and other Darwin family papers. This copy includes the rare six-page 1915 Postscript to “Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters” containing Bernard Darwin’s biographical sketch of Erasmus Darwin 1881–1915. unknown