First edition, first issue, with the uncorrected text
Publisher and Year: London: John Murray, 1871
Edition: First edition, first issue, with Vol. 1 having "transmitted" as the first word on p. 297 and Vol. 2 containing a list of errata on the verso of the title page. One of just 2,500 sets of the first issue. Darwin first uses the word "evolution" in any of his works on the second page of Vol. 1 (he thereafter included the term in the subsequent edition of The Origin of Species in 1872). Each volume was produced in heights of 190 or 185 mm (no priority), here mixed. (Freeman, 1977)
Condition and Description: Octavo, two volumes, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, plain edges, black coated endpapers. Vol. 1 (423 pp + 16 pp ads). Vol. 2 (475 pp. + 16 pp. ads). Rubbing and handling marks to the boards. Gilt legible. Wear to the tips, with some exposure. Volume 1: Short split to the upper-rear joint; splitting to the front endpaper at the gutter, but the hinge is holding; securely bound within, though with several instances over-opening resulting in minor gutter exposure; partially removed bookplate to the front pastedown. Volume 2: Secure hinges and binding; no writing or underlining; mild foxing, mainly to the preliminary and terminal leaves; and a small tear to the leaf facing the title page.
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
In The Origin of Species (1859), Darwin did not explicitly argue that humans shared a common ancestor with other animals. Although the implication was clear to many readers, he addressed human evolution directly only twelve years later in The Descent of Man (1871). In that work, Darwin explicitly applied evolutionary theory to humans and introduced the concept of sexual selection to explain the evolution of traits that natural selection alone could not fully account for.
Inventory ID: 338 - 753 - 118
First edition, first issue, with the uncorrected text
Publisher and Year: London: John Murray, 1871
Edition: First edition, first issue, with Vol. 1 having "transmitted" as the first word on p. 297 and Vol. 2 containing a list of errata on the verso of the title page. One of just 2,500 sets of the first issue. Darwin first uses the word "evolution" in any of his works on the second page of Vol. 1 (he thereafter included the term in the subsequent edition of The Origin of Species in 1872). Each volume was produced in heights of 190 or 185 mm (no priority), here mixed. (Freeman, 1977)
Condition and Description: Octavo, two volumes, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, plain edges, black coated endpapers. Vol. 1 (423 pp + 16 pp ads). Vol. 2 (475 pp. + 16 pp. ads). Rubbing and handling marks to the boards. Gilt legible. Wear to the tips, with some exposure. Volume 1: Short split to the upper-rear joint; splitting to the front endpaper at the gutter, but the hinge is holding; securely bound within, though with several instances over-opening resulting in minor gutter exposure; partially removed bookplate to the front pastedown. Volume 2: Secure hinges and binding; no writing or underlining; mild foxing, mainly to the preliminary and terminal leaves; and a small tear to the leaf facing the title page.
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
In The Origin of Species (1859), Darwin did not explicitly argue that humans shared a common ancestor with other animals. Although the implication was clear to many readers, he addressed human evolution directly only twelve years later in The Descent of Man (1871). In that work, Darwin explicitly applied evolutionary theory to humans and introduced the concept of sexual selection to explain the evolution of traits that natural selection alone could not fully account for.
Inventory ID: 338 - 753 - 118
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