Author: DARWIN Charles
Title: The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits. Eleventh Thousand (corrected). REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Description: John Murray,, 1888. 8vo., Eleventh Thousand [First Impression], with 15 woodcuts (a number full-page) in the text, small corner loss from front free endpaper, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary; green decorative arches-style cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, chocolate endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean copy. First impression of the Eleventh Thousand which contains the altered footnote on p.7. Edited by Francis Darwin. Freeman (Darwin), 327; Freeman (BNHB), 917.

Keywords: natural history, darwin, mould, vegetable worms, worms, evolution, genetics, history of science, charles darwin


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