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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter. Vol. I-III

by Darwin, Charles; Darwin, Francis

Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
Publisher : John Murray
Published In : London
Illustrations : 3 portrait frontispieces, 2 plates, 2 illus

Description:

Seventh thousand revised. The first published version of Darwin's autobiography, which went through five printings (of which this is the fifth) in little more than a year. Edited by Sir Francis Darwin (1848-1925), a botanist and son of Charles Darwin. Francis Darwin's books on his father have provided the basis for all subsequent scientific biographies and papers on Darwin.

Freeman 1457.

Condition

3 vols, 8vo, orig. grey-green cloth, blind double-ruled border to boards, gilt title and rules to spines; a little rubbed to extremities, minor wear to the foot of one spine; a few conrners lightly bumped; endpapers and facing leaves browned; minor spotting to edges of text block of Vol. III. Vg set. With bookplates of Leicestershire botanist, F.A. Sowter (1899-1972).