The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life By Charles Darwin, L.L.D., F.R.S. The Origin of Species, Sixth Edition with Additions and Corrections (forty-fifth thousand), London: John Murray, 1894. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, Routledge advertisements and name to base of spine, pp. [2], xxi, 432, one folding plate. Internally very good, spotting to endpapers/advertisements, toning to the margins, pencil inscriptions at rear endpapers, gutters showing slightly but binding intact and reasonably strong, shelf-lean, cloth lightly worn, spine a little discoloured and some wear to the head and foot ends. Please refer to the pictures as they form part of the description. Good early copy of this scarce title by Darwin, and one of the most important works of scientific study ever published.