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:

Sandeman, Walter (stamp)

Physical Description:

xxi, 458 pages : plate (folded) ; 20 cm

Edition:

Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872. Eighteenth thousand.

Place of Publication:

London : John Murray, 1876.

Notes:

Three quotations on page facing t.p.

"This is the first issue of the final definitive text."--Cf. Freeman.

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.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of Walter Sandeman.

Culture Class Collection copy has Bound by W. Bone & Son, London, label.

Cited in:

Freeman, R.B. Works of Charles Darwin (2nd ed.), 401.

OCLC:

1185586