The Origin of Species. By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. New Impression, with Portrait. This Sixth Edition 1902 copy of Darwin's Origin of Species has been transformed into a beautiful collector's item with a full period leather binding by award-winning historical binder Andrew Sims.

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STUNNING BINDING. Hardback, approx. 8 inches x 5.5 inches. Bound in full hand-dyed period goatskin, and finished luxuriously in 23.5 carat gold. The binding features a full gilt spine with raised bands, twin gilt lines to the boards with floral stops to corners, patterned gilt roll to turn-ins, and gilt detailing to board edges and headcaps. The binder's stamp in gilt appears on the front turn-in. Patterned Victorian style endpapers, hand-sewn silk endbands. Text block edges cleaned and decorated with a fine complementary green sprinkle. Protected in a bespoke parchment-lined slipcase. In fine condition. Interior pages in very good clean condition with just the occasional spot here and there. The folding diagram does have some trivial spotting to its folds but is otherwise in excellent condition. 703pp. No rear catalogue. Illustrated with a photogravure portrait and one diagram folding-plate at p140. A turn-of-the-century New Impression of Darwin?s critical work on the theory of evolution. N° de ref. del artículo 91156

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Título: The Origin of Species. By Means of Natural ...
Editorial: London, John Murray, 1902 New Impression