Description
Signed limited edition set of The Science of Life, written by H.G. Wells, C.P. Wells, and Julian Huxley.
Octavo, [four volumes]. Original blue cloth spines, title printed in black on paper label affixed to spines. Blue paper-covered boards with H.G. Wells’s facsimile signature in gilt on covers. Top edges gilt. Solid text blocks, rubbed corners, sunning to spines, a very good set. Internally bright with numerous in-text illustrations and diagrams.
A limited edition set, number 264 of 750 signed copies. Signed by H.G. Wells, Julian Huxley, and G.F. Wells on the limitation page.
The Science of Life is recognized as one of the first modern textbooks on biology. The writing was split between C.P. Wells, son of H.G. Wells, and Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous Huxley. H.G. Wells carried out the revisions and dealt with the publishers. At the time of its original release in 1929, the book was a huge success, but sales dwindled following the stock market crash and subsequent depression.
