The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (second edition)

Pp. xvi, 693; 18 text-figures (woodcuts).  Publisher’s original forest green cloth with spine lettered in gilt and with ornate gilt decorations at the top and bottom of the spine, the front and rear cloth-covered boards have blind-stamped border decorations, brown clay-coated endpapers, 8vo.  This is Freeman 966, which is the second revised and augmented edition, the 23^rd thousand.  Darwin tackled the question of human evolution and natural selection in this work.  It was a topic he avoided in previous works.  There is a full-page annotation on the front free endpaper by John Macdonald, dated April 1889, that criticizes Darwin’s writings in favor of the account presented in Genesis.  No other ownership marks.