2 volumes, 8vo. 16pp. publisher's advertisements dated January 1871 in each volume. (Some spotting.) Original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered (hinges repaired, some slight wear to extremities, small chip to head of spine Vol. I). Provenance: Thore Virgin (bookplates, signature dated 1910). 

FIRST EDITION, second issue, without "transmitted" as the first word on p.297 of Vol. I, and without the printer's note and errata on the verso of the title-leaf in Vol. II and without the leaf containing Darwin's note tipped after p.viii in Vol. II. There were 2,500 copies of the first edition and 2,000 copies of the second edition printed of Darwin's work, which includes the first appearance of the word "evolution" in any of Darwin's works. See Freeman 941 & 942.