Darwinism by Alfred Russel Wallace

Author: Wallace, Alfred Russel
Title: Darwinism 
Subtitle: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with some of its Applications 
Publisher: Macmillan and Co. 
Date: 1901 
Place: London 
Dimensions: 8vo. 20cm x 14.5cm 

3rd edition. 
xx+494pp+ii(pub ads)

Wallace’s most cited book and his defence against the critics of Darwinism. Wallace, who independently discovered evolution by natural selection and whose discovery prompted Darwin to publish On the Origin of Species, does not agree with Darwin on some of the finer points of his theory, introduces some new concepts to the field of evolutionary biology in this work and here lays the groundwork for post-Darwinian theories of evolution.

Green cloth covered boards, gilt titles to spine, blind and gilt decorations to boards.
Ex-library: Johannesburg Book Club, with the club’s membership rules and fees pasted to front paste down, purple pen cancellation inscription overtop and 2/6 in same hand to f.f.e.p. 
Neat stamps to title page, p1, 101, 201, 301, 401 not encroaching into text.
Slight offsetting of stamp to portrait frontispiece tissue guard, catalogue numbering to colophon. Neat, black pen lines in margins of pp242/3. A few white spots to top board. Very faint black ‘E’ and (3 numbers?) below. Scuff to fore edge corner of lower edge.

Other than the above, the book is Very Good indeed, tight, square binding, internally bright and clean, the fold out map crisp.