On the Origin of Species [By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life] (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written))

xxx, 470 pp. 8vo. Original black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes a new preface by Charles G. Darwin, a color frontispiece portrait of Darwin by R. Shore, and wood engravings by Paul Landacre. Darwin's landmark work on evolution and natural selection.