- Bib ID:
- 4591931
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Uniform Title:
- On the origin of species
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. RBRS 26 copy
- Description:
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- London : John Murray, 1859
- ix, 502, 32 p., [1] folded leaf : 1 ill. ; 21 cm.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- At foot of title page: The right of Translation is reserved.
- Advertisements on p. [1]-32 (3rd group)
- One of the earliest known surviving copies of the first ed. to arrive in Australia.
- The first edition of Origin was published on November 24, 1859. This copy is believed to have arrived in Australia by March 10, 1860.
- Inscriptions on front end paper: "Parramatta N.S.W. William Woolls, March 17/60, H.S. Mort, 2/10/00. 1250 copies printed with the misprint "species" on page 20. 2 sets of last half on Murray's General list of works, pp 17-32 bear story on page 184 (Usinger)". This copy has been extensively annotated by Woolls. Some of the annotations are faded and rubbed.
- Includes ex-libris bookplates of previous owners, Harold S. Mort and Robert L. Usinger.
- Condition: Some foxing to text, a good copy in original publisher's blindstamped green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down, minor repairs to joints, a little worn. The binding is in Freeman's variant b. In this copy there is an unrecorded anomaly in Murray's advertisements at the end.The 'c' gathering has been duplicated in error replacing the 'b' gathering, so that the pagination of the advertisements runs 17-32 ;17-32.
- RBRS 26 copy also available online; http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-214148805
- Cited In:
- Freeman, R.B. Darwin, 112, variant b.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- Also Titled:
- Preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2038 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1968
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1859
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