On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life

Title Variants

Alternative: Preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life

By

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

Murray, John, 1808-1892 , publisher
William Clowes and Sons, , printer
Bradbury & Evans. , printer

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London John Murray, Albemarle Street 1859

Notes

First edition, first issue.

Two quotations on p. [ii] (verso of half title); advertisements at end (32 p.) dated June 1859 and printed by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars.

Printer statement from title page verso and colophon (p. 502).

Diagram (on folded leaf facing p. 117) signed: W. West, lith., Hatton Garden.

Freeman, R.B. Works of Charles Darwin (2nd ed.), | no. 373

Freeman, R.B. Charles Darwin: a companion, | p. 220

BM (compact ed.) | vol. 6, p. 1010, col. 971

Subjects

Binders' tickets (Binding) , Bookplates (Provenance) , Booksellers' labels (Provenance) , Evolution (Biology) , Heredity , Natural selection , Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

BHL Collections

BHL at 10

Call Number

QH365 .O2 1859x

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.82303
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/06017473
OCLC: 30420814
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20124
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20968204