London: John Murray, 1862. First edition. 8vo. vi, 365, (1), 32 pp. (ads, dated December 1861). With wood-engraved folding plate and in-text wood-engravings. Publisher's dark plum cloth (Freeman variant A), orchid stamped in gilt on front board, soiling and rubbing to boards, wear in upper front board from removed label; abrasion on front paste-down from removed label; blindstamp of W.H. Smith on front free endpaper; scattered spotting to text; Edmonds & Remnants binder's ticket on rear paste-down. Freeman 800

First edition of the first of Darwin's works to publish extensive evidence supporting his theory of evolution through natural selection.