DARWIN, CHARLES. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Folding lithographed table. Half-title; publisher's 32-page catalogue at end dated June 1859. 8vo, 198x123 mm, original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnant, with their ticket, recased with spine ends restored, upper outer corner of rear cover rounded off; contents clean but with upper outer corners faintly bumped; morocco-backed cloth folding case. London, 1859
first edition, limited to 1250 copies, of darwin's most famous and influential work; Freeman's variant "a" of the binding and variant 3 of the ads. Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Grolier/Horblit 23b; Norman 593; Printing and the Mind of Man 344b.
