The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

John Murray. London. 1888. Sixth Edition, with Additions and Corrections to 1872. (Thirty-Third Thousand.). pp. xxi, (i), 458, 32 Catalogue (dated July 1887). Folding chart. Dark green Murray cloth, joints weak, a little wear to the spine ends and to the top front edge, contents clean and in very good order. *FREEMAN #423 - This, the Sixth edition, is generally considered to be the final text though Darwin did make a number of minor changes in the 1876 edition. Freeman records that Chapter VII is entirely new, and '... was inserted to confute the views of the Roman Catholic biologist St George Mivart. The edition was aimed at a wider public and printed in smaller type, the volume shorter again and giving the general impression of a cheap edition, which at 7s. 6d. it was. The title changes to The origin of species, and a glossary, compiled by W. S. Dallas, appears. It is in this edition that the word 'evolution' occurs for the first time.' The Glossary in this, the 33rd. thousand, contains the misprint 'indigeens' for 'indigenes' and the opening sentence of the Historical Sketch reads - 'I will here a give a brief sketch........'. This latter misprint was not corrected until the issue of 1891.