The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. / By Charles Darwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

On the origin of species

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution.

Natural selection.

Penn Provenance:

Wharton, W. J. L. (William James Lloyd), 1843-1905 (autograph)

Physical Description:

xxi pages, i unnumbered page, 458 pages : folded plate ; 19 cm

Edition:

Sixth edition, with additions and corrections. Eleventh thousand.

Other Title:

Origin of species

Place of Publication:

London : John Murray, 1872.

Notes:

Three quotations on page facing t.p.

Contains "Additions and corrections to the sixth edition" (p. [xi]-xii).

Contains "An historical sketch of the progress of opinion On the origin of species, previously to the publication of the first edition of this work" (p. [xiii]-xxi).

Includes index

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of W.J. Wharton.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate on verso of front free endpaper.

OCLC:

1185571