The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley [complete in 5 volumes including supplement]

London: Macmillan, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First (and only) edition of Huxley's complete scientific works, previously only available in the original scientific journals. 1898-1903. Complete in 5 volumes: 4 plus the supplementary volume. Numerous plates, many folding. A good ex-reference library set in the original red cloth gilt. Library plate to front pastedown of each volume, no other library markings apparent. Externally clean with some sun fading and minor scuffing to cloth boards. Vol. 1 backstrip split and reaffixed. Vol. 2 and the supplementary volume rebacked with new endpapers but retaining original backstrips. Text blocks of each volume are tight with no loose or missing pages, all plates present. Internally the volumes are overall clean and unmarked with very occasional small foxing spots and evidence of handling on a few pages of each volume. Overall a clean tight copy of this cornerstone of 19th Century biological thought. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), known as Darwin's bulldog for his passionate defense of the theory of evolution, was a brilliant Victorian anatomist and biologist who counted amongst his grand-children the noted scientist Julian Huxley and renowned author Aldous. Super-royal 8vo, 10 " x 6 ". xv + 606, xi + 612, xi + 622, xii + 689, 90. Heavy set of books weighing 11kg (24 pounds).