BATESON WILLIAM Materials for the Study of Variation 1894 M

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BATESON, WILLIAM. Materials for the Study of Variation Treated with Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species. 209 text illustrations. xv, [1], 598, [2] pages, including final ad leaf * Mendel's Principles of Heredity. 3 portraits of Gregor Mendel; 6 color plates. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, original green cloth, rear joint and top of front joint cracked on second binding; scattered minor foxing in the first volume, contents of the second clean. London & New York, 1894; Cambridge, 1909

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first edition of the first book, Bateson's major scientific work before turning his attention to genetics, in second issue binding; second edition of the second work, "the first book on Mendelism in English, and the first English textbook of genetics" (Garrison-Morton). Garrison-Morton 237, 241 (1902 original edition); Norman 134, 136.