Life and letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

A$2,200 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

By his son Leonard Huxley . London : Macmillan and Co., 1900 (First printed October 1900, this the November 1900 reprint). Two volumes, octavo, in fine prize bindings for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, Wigram Allen Prize stamped below, spines in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, pp. viii; (2); 503; vi; (2); 504, engraved and photogravures plates preliminaries lightly foxed, a fine copy. Tipped in to the first volume is an original holograph letter from Thomas Huxley, four pages, black bordered notepaper, dated Jermyn St., Dec. 19th 1860 , addressed to My dear Sir Alfred Stephen , stating that now my Lecture is over, there are many things that must be done and are piling up , regretting that time did not permit their meeting up before Sir Alfred s return voyage to Australia. Thomas Huxley writes to the Chief Justice of New South Wales about his Lecture, now known as The Great Debate on Darwinian theory. In 1860, Thomas Henry Huxley was pitted against Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in an informal public debate on Darwinian theory which focused on the scientific evidence for evolution and its compatibility with a literal interpretation of the Bible. Known as Darwin s Bulldog , Huxley was one of Charles Darwin s key advocates, and public interest in the

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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