On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,
or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections. (Tenth Thousand).
London: John Murray, 1869 Stock Code: 120399View more books by the same author
DARWIN, Charles.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.
Darwin's first use of Herbert Spencer's term "the survival of the fittest"
Fifth edition of "the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman). "The fifth edition of 1869 was of 2,000 copies and was again much revised. It is in this one that Darwin used the expression "the survival of the fittest", Herbert Spencer's term, for the first time; it appears first in the heading of Chapter IV" (Freeman).Description
Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind-panelled covers, black coated endpapers Freeman's variant c (no priority).
Illustrations
Folding diagram at p. 132.
Condition
With the contemporary book label of Reverend Lloyd B. Walrond to the front pastedown. Bookseller's blind stamp to front free endpaper. Ownership inscription in ink to half-title. Spine gently rolled, slight wear to extremities, a couple of small nicks to spine ends, faint mark to front free endpaper; a very good copy.
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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.
