Title: The Foundations of the Origin of Species
Author: Darwin, Charles; Darwin, Francis (ed.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year published: 1909
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Book Condition: Very Good
Size: 8vo
Binding: Publisher’s Full Buckram
Edition: First Edition
Notes: The Foundations of the Origin of Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844 by Charles Darwin; Edited by his son Francis Darwin, Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909), pp. xxix, [1], 263. First edition of this publication of Darwin’s two groundbreaking essays together edited by his son. Ex library with usual stamps and sign of there having been a security tag on p. 143. A very good copy in original green cloth, spine faded, slightly bumped at the edges, gilt lettering. Gilt top edges of pages. Complete with photogravure portrait of author on frontispiece.