Publisher and Year: London: John Murray, 1873
Edition: Sixth edition, with additions and corrections. Fourth issue, with the title page dated 1873 and stating "thirteenth thousand" on the title page, referring to the cumulative number of copies printed across all editions beginning with the first edition of 1859. The third issue would have a title page dated 1872. The sixth edition of The Origin of Species was the last to be revised and published in Darwin’s lifetime. It was also the earliest edition of that book to use the term “evolution,” though Darwin had introduced the term in his writings a year earlier in The Descent of Man (1871). (Freeman, 1977)
Condition and Description: Octavo, publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, plain edges, brown endpapers, folding diagram at p. 90, 458 pp. (+ glossary and index). Gilt bright; boards mildly rubbed; spine ends pushed; tips a little bumped. Hinges firm, though there is a 1.5” hairline split to the endpaper at the front gutter (the underlying structure remains intact). Interior binding secure and mostly tight, but with some occasional instances of over-opening, as usual, and with a crack to the gutter at p. 160. Preliminary and terminal leaves foxed; interior pages clear. No prior owner’s markings. An uncommonly well-preserved example.
"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."
Inventory ID: 648 - 145 - 834
Publisher and Year: London: John Murray, 1873
Edition: Sixth edition, with additions and corrections. Fourth issue, with the title page dated 1873 and stating "thirteenth thousand" on the title page, referring to the cumulative number of copies printed across all editions beginning with the first edition of 1859. The third issue would have a title page dated 1872. The sixth edition of The Origin of Species was the last to be revised and published in Darwin’s lifetime. It was also the earliest edition of that book to use the term “evolution,” though Darwin had introduced the term in his writings a year earlier in The Descent of Man (1871). (Freeman, 1977)
Condition and Description: Octavo, publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, plain edges, brown endpapers, folding diagram at p. 90, 458 pp. (+ glossary and index). Gilt bright; boards mildly rubbed; spine ends pushed; tips a little bumped. Hinges firm, though there is a 1.5” hairline split to the endpaper at the front gutter (the underlying structure remains intact). Interior binding secure and mostly tight, but with some occasional instances of over-opening, as usual, and with a crack to the gutter at p. 160. Preliminary and terminal leaves foxed; interior pages clear. No prior owner’s markings. An uncommonly well-preserved example.
"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."
Inventory ID: 648 - 145 - 834
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