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APPENDIX III BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION FIRST EDITION: ON ITHE ORIGIN OF SPECIES IBY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION , I OR THE I PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE I FOR LIFE. I BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., I FELLOW OF THE ROYAL, GEOLOGICAL, LINNAEAN, ETC., SOCIETIES ; I AUTHOR OF '{OURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H.M.S. BEAGLE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.' I LONDON: I JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1 1859. I The right of Translation is reserved. Coil: 12° (Uncut: 7 7/8 X 4 15/16), a4, bl , B-XI2, yI2 (- YI2), 256 leaves, pp. [i-v] vi-ix [x] [1] 2-5°2; plate [1] is folded in between 116 and 117· Contents: p. [i]: half-title 'ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' r'[ii]: [wavy rule (2 3/16)] I epigraphs (from Whewell and Bacon) [wavy 'rule (2 3/16)] I 'Down, Bromley, Kent, I October 1St 1859.'. p. [iii]: title. p. [iv]: [rule (2 1/16)] 'LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, I AND CHARING CROSS.'. p. [v] vi-ix: 'CONTENTS' [short wavy rule (7/16)]. p. [x]: 'INSTRUCTION TO BINDER.' p. [1]: 'ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES I [double short rule (3/4)] I INTRODUCTION.'. p. 490: text ends. p. 491-5°2: 'INDEX.' [rule (3 17/32)]; [rule between columns]; [both rules on all pages of Index]. p. 502: Index ends. I 'THE END.' I [rule (2 1/16)] Iprinter's statement as on p. [iv]. RT] According to subject discussed on page. Occasionally RT runs across the double page. RT frequently correspond with sub-titles within chapters. In small caps. Typography and paper: $b signed; $B-Y signed on ist (B), and (B 2), and 5th (B 3) recto of each gathering. Text: 35 11.(leaded) 5 3/4 (6 1/8) X 3 3/ 8. Type corresponds in all but a few minute particulars with face in Specimens of some of the Printing Types for Book-Work, used in the Office of Charles Reed and Benjamin Pardon, at Paternoster Row, Saint Paul's, MDCCCL. Text in Small Pica, chapter headings in Bourgeois, Index in Brevier. This face in turn corresponds in all but a few minute particulars (especially the If') with English Modern in the Reed and Fox specimen book of 1856. (Both specimen books in the Columbia University Library.) This company had been R. Beazly & Co., late Thorowgood. The face used appears to be a new cutting, slightly changed, of the Thorowgood face illustrated (scale changed) in Charles Rosner, Printer's Progress Cambridge , 1951. Printer was W. Clowes and Sons. Unfortunately,' all of this firm's records were destroyed during the Second World War. Text, r o-pt. with z-pt. leading; RT and head-titles 8-pt.; index, 6-pt. with 2-pt. leading . . Th~ paper (sheet and half I?ost) purchased from Spalding (pubIisher s records), probably Spalding and Hodge, Wholesale Stationers, 145 Drury Lane, founded 1812. (The London Commercial List, By 787 Estell & Co., London, 1871). White wove unwatermarked. Sheets bulk 1 5/16". Plate: i-leaf folded pasted on p. 116. Signed 'We West lith. Hatton Garden .' in lower left-hand corner. Plate represents diagram of descent. Binding: Dark-green zig-zag ribbed cloth. Front and back covers: identical blind-stamped panel with elaborate border. Spine: gilt-stamped [three roles width of spine] I 'ON THE I ORIGIN OF I SPECIES I [short rule] I DARWIN. I [two rules width of spine] I [elaborate triangular ornament point down] I [identical ornament point up] I [two rules width of spine] ILONDON IJOHN MURRAY.' I [three rules width of spine]. Light brown end-papers in front and back of wove unwatermarked paper lighter than sheets. SECOND EDITION: ON ITHE ORIGIN OF SPECIES I BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION , lOR THE IPRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE I FOR LIFE. I BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., I FELLOW OF THE ROYAL, GEOLOGICAL, LINNEAN, ETC., SOCIETIES; I AUTHOR OF 'JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H.M.S. BEAGLE 'S VOYAGE I ROUND THE WORLD.' I FIFTH THOUSAND. 1 LONDON: I JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. I 1860. 1 The right of Translation is reserved. Coil: 12° (uncut: 7 7/8 X 4 15/16), a4, b1, B-X12, Y12 (-YI2), 256 leaves, pp. [i-v] vi-ix lxl [1] 2-502; plate [I] in fold between 116 and 117. Contents: P: [i]: as in i st, P: [ii]: epigraphs (quotations from Whell, Butler , Bacon. p. [iii] etc.: as in i st, RT...

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