[DARWIN (C)]. HUXLEY (T.H). HUXLEY (L).: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. By his Son Leonard Huxley.[Second Impression]. THE LIFE OF DARWIN'S 'BULLDOG' , Macmillan, 19002 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with 2 fine portrait frontispieces toned in sepia (original tissue guards present), 9 plates (original tissue guards present where called for) and an illustration in the text, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary of first volume; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrips faded (but all lettering just legible), backstrips slightly pulled at heads else a very good, crisp, clean set. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of both volumes. Sold from an institution with its bookplates on front paste-downs and front free endpapers, and small blind stamp on titles. Published a month after the first edition. (Book ref. 19687) £44.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Island Books , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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