• An attractive set of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, the fifth thousand with revisions and errata corrected.
  • An attractive set of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, the fifth thousand with revisions and errata corrected.
  • An attractive set of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, the fifth thousand with revisions and errata corrected.
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DARWIN, Charles & DARWIN, Francis [editor].

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin,

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin,

including an autobiographical chapter. Edited by his son, Francis Darwin.

Stock Code 121700

London, John Murray, 1887.

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a handsome set

A handsomely bound set of the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, edited by his son Francis and with a chapter on 'The Reception of the Origin of Species' by Thomas Henry Huxley. This early printing was published in the same year as the first with revisions and the errata corrected.

Fifth thousand, revised; 3 vols, 8vo (22 x 15 cm); engraved frontispiece to each volume, single plate each to volumes I and II, errata slip in volume I, engravings within the text, bookplates to pastedowns, occasional light spotting to first and last few leaves; contemporary half red morocco by Birdsall & Son, gilt ruled marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt in six gilt compartments, top edges gilt, a touch of rubbing, a very good set; 395; 393; 418 pp.

Freeman 1453.

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