Darwin, CharlesBiblio.com
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Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of his Published Letters
190226061London: John Murray. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1902. Hardcover. Dampstain to lower corner of rear board. Small 4mm loss of cloth at tip of lower corner of front board. Minor foxing. Previous owner's small blind-stamp on title page "J.A.GRAY".; Sixth thousand in this form. A one volume abridgement of the 1887 "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Including an Autobiographical Chapter". The one volume abridged edition was first published by John Murray in 1892. vi 348 pages photogravure portrait frontispiece 1 plate facsimile letter. Without advertisements. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine dark green lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 197 x 127mm. Frontispiece portrait of a bearded and hatted Darwin from a photograph by Elliot & Fry. "It is pleasure to me to acknowledge the kindness of Messrs. Elliott & Fry in allowing me to reproduce the fine photograph which appears as the frontispiece to the present issue. Francis Darwin" - from the Note to the Second Edition dated April 1902. Reference: Freeman 1473 . John Murray hardcover
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