On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Darwin, Charles

New York: The Heritage Press. Hardcover. Very Good+/None. One quarter leather forest green binding with titling stamped in pure gold leaf on the spine and woodblock illustration on front and spine. 1/2-in. light scratch on backstrip near head. Fern-colored paper covered boards and green tinted upper page edges. In protective slipcover with toning along one edge. Binding tight. Interior unmarked. Only other apparent flaw is toning to rear pastedown along hinge. 4to, (7 3/4 x 10 1/4 ins.) BOOK INFO: The Heritage Club Sandglass publication laid in. With preface by Charles G. Darwin. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Longacre. According to Kunitz and Haycraft in British Authors of the Nineteenth Century, Darwin 'had a faculty of sayin abstruse things in a simple manner and on every page the nobility and kindliness of the man display themselves in characteristic form. He is a plain man talking of things which he understands throughly, a born teacher pointing out the accumulated reasons for every assertion he makes.' This is a beautiful edition with which to undertake reading this seminal work.