Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: The Folio Society, 2006. Seventh Printing, 2009. Introduced by Richard Keynes. 252 × 176 × 47 mm. Pp. [i–v] vi–xxxi [xxxii], [1–3] 4–415 [416]: [26] pages of colour plates. Type: Baskerville. Printed by Memminger MedienCentrum and bound by Real Lachenmaier. Full yellow-brown cloth with a design in black and gold by David Eccles; brown endleaves. Black slip case. Issued in the series of Victorian travel and exploration books from Folio. The plates mostly reproduce hand-coloured prints and paintings of contemporary natural history subjects.
A very good copy, binding square and secure, pages clean and tightly bound, with just one bookplate to front paste-down and a smaller one to rear paste-down; else fine. In like slipcase with a little shelf-wear.
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