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14. 1845 London, John Murray. Issue of F13 in book form. 8vo, 180 mm, viii + 519 [520] pp, 14 text woodcuts. Printer's note on verso of title leaf, advertisements on verso of 2L4 = p. [520]. Inserted advertisements dated August or November 1845. Colonial and Home Library vol. XII. Binding: variant a. red morocco with blind and gilt stamping of the series, Colonial and Home Library gilt on spine [Darwin Library CUL copy only seen]; variant b. scarlet cloth of the series, edges white, otherwise as a.; variant c. red cloth, blind stamped central ornamental device and ornamental corners on both boards, edges sprinkled, not Colonial and Home Library. Price: 8s. 6d. Darwin Library CUL, CUL, BL, UT, 1007(12) part. [8 part
Inserted advertisements may be as late as March 1846 - Copy seen M.E. Korn, September 1984. Copy seen in scarlet cloth, unopened throughout, with no inserted advertisements M.E. Korn, July 1982. Copy in what appears to be a publisher's case "Half brown morocco, marbled boards and edges, yellow glazed end papers. Spine gilt lettered "Murray's Library" and Darwin's Journal" - Pollack, Catalogue 28, 1981. |
