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London: John Murray, 1868. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two volumes. 8vo (221 x 142 mm). viii, 411 [1]; viii, 486 pp. With 32 pp. of publisher's catalogue dated April 1867 in vol. I and [2] pp. ads dated February 1868 in vol. II; 5 errata on 6 lines in vol. I and 9 errata on 7 lines in vol. II as called for. Original publishers green cloth with gilt-lettered and decorated spines including the one-line imprint to each tail, dark-blue-coated endpapers and binder's ticket (Edmonds & Remnants) to the rear paste-down of vol. I (bindings sound and tight, very minor rubbing to cloth and extremities, corners with some minor wear but free of bumping). All pages uncut and partly unopened. Except for light foxing of edges and endpapers and a few occasional faint spots, bright and clean throughout (including titles and preliminaries); a few light pencil annotations and markings in places. A very good+ set. ---- FIRST EDITION, FIRST…

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication is a book by Charles Darwin that presents his observations on the descendency and variations in animals and plants during the domestication process, highlighting the role of artificial selection.