This deluxe gift edition of Charles Darwin´s On the Origin of Species is presented with gold-embossed cover design with gilded page-edges and beautiful endpapers.
The controversial theory of natural selection proposed in this book made Darwin internationally famous and put the issue of evolution at the center of a fierce debate. Some 150 years after the book´s first publication, this battle still rages.
Appearing here in this beautiful foil-stamped edition, On the Origin of Species includes a fascinating preface by George Davidson and includes over 100 delicately detailed and informative contemporary illustrations, many of them relating to Darwin´s discoveries on H.M.S. Beagle. The text used for this edition was the last to be published during Darwin´s lifetime and is considered to be the definitive version.