The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
by Charles Darwin
Limited Editions Club #1167 of 1500 in slipcase
SIGNED and Illustrated by Fritz Kredel
Limited Editions Club, 1971. VG+. Minor edge wear and surface flaws . Interior pages clean, bright and tight. Slipcase bottom edge has a split. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the Illustrator. Fritz Kredel (illustrator). Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in tan oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type set, printed, and bound by the Griffin Press in Australia. Illustrated with 14 full-page black-and-maroon line drawings and a profusion of smaller black-and-white drawings by Fritz Kredel. A solid, collectible copy.