ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

First Folio edition, first printing. Publisher's original ochre cloth blocked in black and gilt with illustration by David Eccles, in slipcase. Printed on Abbey Wove paper. Top edge ochre. Illustrated throughout with colour frontispiece, 24 pages of colour plates. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed structurally sound slipcase.

This Folio edition follows the text of the first edition published in 1859, with some minor emendations. The glossary of scientific terms first published in the fifth edition (1869) is also included.