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Darwin, Charles.
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species.
Publisher: John Murray; London,
Date of Publication: 1892
Stock Code: 14398
‘Fourth thousand’. Octavo, pp., xxiv, 352, 32 of publisher’s catalogue to end, 15 in-text woodcuts, and 38 tables, as called for. Publisher’s original green cloth, blind frame to boards, titled in gilt to spine. Ownership inscription of one ‘L. Hoskin, Newton Abbott’ in ink to front paste-down, further ownership inscriptions to front free end-paper. Shelf-wear to board edges and spine-tips, spots of light soiling to boards. A very good copy. Early edition of one of Darwin’s major works. Darwin recalled in his autobiography: ‘this book consists chiefly of the several papers on heterostyled flowers originally published by the Linnean Society, corrected, with much new matter added, together with observations on some other cases in which the same plant bears two kinds of flowers. As before remarked, no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the meaning of heterostyled flowers.’ £200.00