DARWIN, Charles.

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The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, Sixth edition, first issue. This is the last lifetime edition and the first Origin to use the term "evolution", earlier used by Darwin in The Descent of Man (1871). This copy has the publisher's blind stamp, "Presented by Mr Murray", on the title page.The sixth edition includes a new chapter (VII) refuting the arguments of the Roman Catholic biologist St George Mivart, as well as a glossary by W. S. Dallas. "The edition was aimed at a wider public and printed in smaller type... giving the general impression of a cheap edition, which at 7s. 6d. it was" (Freeman). The first issue reads "eleventh thousand" on the title page, noting the total issue of copies from the first edition of 1859 onwards, the second issue reading "twelfth thousand". Both were issued in the same year.

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