Darwin, Charles
THE EFFECTS OF CROSS AND SELF FERTILISATION IN THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. JOHN MURRAY, 1876
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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin
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Darwin, Charles
THE EFFECTS OF CROSS AND SELF FERTILISATION IN THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. JOHN MURRAY, 1876
8vo, FIRST EDITION, tables and diagram, with errata slip, original green cloth ruled in blind, lettered in gilt on spine, ENTIRELY UNOPENED, slightly bumped at head and foot of spine
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Literature
Freeman 1249; Grolier Club, Darwin (2004), p.28
Catalogue Note
Published on 10 November 1876, and all 1,500 copies were sold by the end of the year. Despite this, the work was too technical to reach a wide readership, and was described by Francis Darwin as "one of his most important works, and at the same time one of the most unreadable to any but the professed naturalist" (Charles Darwin (1892), p.310).
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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin
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London
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