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Identifier: F571
Date: 1950
Concise reference: Darwin, C. R. 1950. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (Reprint of the First Editon. With a Foreword by Dr. C. D. Darlington, F.R.S. London: Watts & Co.Frontispice, Draft of Origin, folio 198.
Detailed reference: 571. 1950 London, Watts. 195 mm. xx + 426 pp. Foreword by C. D. Darlington. Same setting of type as F572, but not Thinker's Library. There is a photograph of a page of Darwin's manuscript, and a blurb on the reverse of the title page. Based on first edition, but with punctuation changes. See also Nos 545 & 572. CUL, BL, UT, 716(8). [196 Corrections from Dan J. Bye 2010, John van Wyhe 2023. Freeman 571. This work claimed to be the first reprint of the first edition, "the only changes being punctuation", but this is clearly not so, the very same publisher having reprinted the first edition in 1903 (complete with an extensive note stating that fact--this not explicitly noted by Freeman).


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