On the origin of species by means of natural selection,
Subtitle: or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
By: by Charles Darwin ...
Contributors: Burndy Library; Henry Sotheran Ltd; Edmonds & Remnants
Publisher: John Murray ...
Published: 1859
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
Subjects: Evolution; Natural selection
Notes: First edition; state with species misspelled as "speceies" on p. 20, line 11.

Printer's colophon, p. [iv] and 502: London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street, and Charing Cross.

Publisher's catalog, 32 p. at end, has colophon: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars.

Publisher's advertisement, p. [ii], dated October 1st, 1859; publisher's catalog dated June, 1859.

Edition binder's label on back paste down: Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London.

Blind and gold-stamped green cloth binding; tan endpapers.

Includes index.

Exhibit page opening : Title page 1995/05/30 through 1996/05/10 William E. Baxter SIL Exhibition Gallery, NMAH SDS / "Science and the Artist's book".

Bookseller's label on front paste down: H. Sotheran & Co. ... London.

Czechoslovakian and Russian Darwin commemorative postage stamps affixed to front paste down.

This copy of the first edition is registered with the Darwin Census, no. 10143, March 2010. For more information go to Darwin Online.