Description
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin, from the Limited Editions Club.
Quarto, xx, 362pp, [3]. Quarter green Oasis morocco over natural wood-veneer paper-covered boards. Gilt titles and decorations on the spine. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings by Fritz Kredel. Housed in the publisher’s matching slipcase.
One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Kredel on the limitation page, this being number 85.
(Newman & Wiche 435) (LEC 442) (Freeman 1043)
This edition follows Darwin’s revised and supplemented 1877 text but omits Chapters IX-XVI on sexual selection in lower animals.
