'The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication' in two volumes, by Charles Darwin [2nd edition, London, 1875]. Publisher's green cloth, badly worn and split, new endpapers, a sound working copy only. This represents the only section of Darwin's big book on the origins of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponds to his first two intended chapters... 'The text was extensively altered for the second edition of 1875, and the format was reduced to the usual crown octavo...'. Freeman 883