RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [3.1858]. [proposed title page for Origin of species draft]. APS-B-D25.L[.38]. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe 10.2012. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced courtesy of the American Philosophical Society and William Huxley Darwin.

This proposed title page for the Origin of species was enclosed by Darwin in a letter to Charles Lyell in March 1858. See Correspondence vol. 7. This manuscript was the property of Lady Lyell. It was sold at Sotheby's on 3 April, 1950, lot 156.

[1]

an An abstract of an Essay

on the

Origin

of

Species and Varieties

Through natural selection

by

Charles Darwin M. A

Fellow of the Royal, Geological & Linn. Socy.

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London

& & & &

1859

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