Darwin, in his own letters, gathered by his son after his death
Francis Darwin assembled recollections, autobiography and correspondence that trace how Charles Darwin’s scientific interests developed. This is Volume I, from 1896.
The story
After Charles Darwin’s death, his son Francis gathered the materials for a portrait of him: personal recollections, a chapter of autobiography in Darwin’s own words, and his letters. Read together they trace how his scientific interests took shape, and they show the man behind the theory of evolution writing to the colleagues and correspondents through whom so much nineteenth-century science moved.
This is the first volume, the one that includes the autobiographical chapter, in the New York edition published by D. Appleton and Company and dated 1896. It is only part of the full work: the second volume is not here, so a reader gets the beginning of the story rather than the whole of it.
The binding is half red leather over marbled boards, rubbed and age-toned, with worn ends to the spine. The frontispiece portrait of Darwin survives, still protected by its sheet of tissue.
Details
- Date
- 1896
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company, New York
- Condition
- Half red leather over marbled boards; worn spine ends, rubbing and age toning; Darwin frontispiece portrait preserved under tissue. Volume II not present in this lot.
