Autograph letter signed Ch. Darwin , to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent, about a second American edition of On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

$50,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

3 pp. Bifolium of Down, Bromley, Kent, stationery, with Bromley crossed out and corrected to Beckenham. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine. Item #315466 Unpublished.Charles Darwin 1809-1882 writes to Charles Layton, London agent for Appleton, about bringing out a revised and expanded second American edition of On the Origin of Species. The letter is a reply to Layton's of the day before*, in which he'd inquired after stereotyped plates

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