Publication details: Trübner,1872,
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One of the late nineteenth-century's most popular and widely read books. Reade was an explorer and a professed 'disciple' of Darwin, who acknowledges in his Preface that Descent of Man had left him little to say 'respecting the birth and infancy of the faculties and affections' (p. iv). He does nevertheless 'venture to dissent' from his progenitor on certain minor points, regarding which he considers it likely that 'Mr Darwin will disapprove' (p. v), and offers an extensive list of his 'chief guides' in various fields that inform this universal history.
FIRST EDITION, a patch of faint browning at foot of first couple of pages of text and a few spots at close, title-page with tiny nick at head, pp. viii, 544, crown 8vo, original green cloth, each board with border stamped in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt with tiny nicks at ends, lean to spine, touch of wear at corners, extremities rubbed, faint partial ring-mark and ink-spot at foot of lower board, edges a little spotted, brown endpapers, good
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