Huxley aldous

1880 · S9153 — London:: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1880. 1880. 8vo. xiv 371 pp. Frontis. 81 figs. index. Original olive cloth beveled boards gilt-stamped spine title; neatly restored spine. Fine. This issue quite rare. LIMITED EDITION of 250 numbered copies signed by publisher: "Bradbury Agnew W" - Whitefriars. "Crayfish were the 'hidden hand' which drew Huxley from Spirula. He veered off lured by a new promise and would never finish the tentacled mollusks. . . The Crayfish might not sound like a stimulating book. But it was destined for the International Scientific Series. The ISS now stretched from physics to psychology and beyond. It outdid the evangelical presses in pumping out rationalist books for Everyman. A huge force for deterministic and social evolution it mixed modernity and notoriety to sell titles through umpteen editions. . . He started The Crayfish after the Summer holidays in 1878 giving his own text an alluring evolutionary gloss. He intended it as the beginning of his own series. He would take readers from the 'insignificant' and common-or-garden into the profound depths." Desmond. "The Crayfish his famous volume in the International Scientific Series has been called by Professor Howes the assistant and successor of Huxley at the Royal College of Science 'PROBABLY THE BEST BIOLOGICAL TREATISE EVER WRITTEN.'" Prof. G. B. Howes in Mitchell Thomas Henry Huxley; a sketch of his life and work. Desmond Huxley From devil's disciple to evolutions' high priest pp. 496-97. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. hardcover books