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The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection,
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The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Third edition, with additions and corrections. (Seventh thousand.)

Publication details: John Murray,1861,

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The first edition to be fully revised, and the first edition to contain 'An Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species' (pp.xiii-xix), in which, among other things, Darwin acknowleged that Patrick Matthew, in his work on Naval Timbers, 1831, had given 'precisely the same view on the origin of species as that propounded by Mr. Wallace and myself [...] and as that enlarged upon in the present volume.'

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1861, pp. xix, 538, [2, ads], crown8vo, original wavy-grain green cloth by Edmonds and Remnant, with their ticket, blind-stamped border to both boards, the backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt, this a little chipped at ends with some minor wear, extremities rubbed, with some wear at corners and along lower joint, a small scrape to both boards, chalked brown endpapers, small trace of ticket removal at foot of front pastedown, the front hinge tender but secure, good

Bibliography: (Freeman 381)

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