Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development.

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First edition. 8vo. xii, [2], 387 pp. With the tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece and four plates at rear, including the double-page colour plate IV. In the publisher's mauve sand-grain cloth, gilt-stamped to spine. The volume has been fully conserved including re-backing with spine strip laid down. A South Place Religious Society plate to front paste-down and four library stamps, mostly to verso of plates. Mark to base of rear board where a sticker (?) has been removed. Neat un-intrusive pencil marginalia to about first third of the volume. A half-cousin of Charles Darwin, Galton took an early interest in heredity and spent much of his life exploring variation in human populations and the implications thereof. He invented the term eugenics in 1883, and set down his observations and conclusions in this volume. N° de ref. del artículo PS.421

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