DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle of Life. London: John Murray 1859. 8vo-sized 12mo, 199 x 125mm. (7 7/8 x 4 7/8in.), original green blind-stamped ripple-grained cloth, spine gilt, Freeman variant "a", uncut, brown endpapers, original binders' ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on lower pastedown, inner joints cracked, head and foot of spine and outer joints slightly rubbed, occasional very slight spotting, mostly at front and back, modern green buckram folding case. FIRST EDITION, folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32-page publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 bound in at end (Freeman state 3). Dibner Heralds of Science 199; Freeman 373; Grolier English 96; Grolier/Horblit 23b; Norman 593; PMM 344b.

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DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle of Life. London: John Murray 1859. 8vo-sized 12mo, 199 x 125mm. (7 7/8 x 4 7/8in.), original green blind-stamped ripple-grained cloth, spine gilt, Freeman variant "a", uncut, brown endpapers, original binders' ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on lower pastedown, inner joints cracked, head and foot of spine and outer joints slightly rubbed, occasional very slight spotting, mostly at front and back, modern green buckram folding case. FIRST EDITION, folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32-page publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 bound in at end (Freeman state 3). Dibner Heralds of Science 199; Freeman 373; Grolier English 96; Grolier/Horblit 23b; Norman 593; PMM 344b.

"The most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century"--Horblit.

Provenance: Thomas Entwisle, contemporary ink signature on title-page.