The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. By Charles Darwin, M. A., F.R.S., &c. In Two Volumes. With illustrations. ~ a nice example, partially unopened. First edition. Two vols. 8vo. Vol 1; pp viii, 411 (1), 32 (ads): Vol 2; pp viii, 486 [2] (ads). Original green cloth in very bright condition, original endpapers present in good condition, slight foxing to prelims, a very clean example overall. Armorial bookplate of Robert Elmhirst to volume one pastedown with the motto In domino confide (In the Lord I Trust), binders ticket Edmonds and Remnants to rear inner pastedown, signature of what appears to be G B Elmhirst to title page of both volumes, with slight annotations seemingly in that hand in ink to Vol 1 page 167-170, pencil underlining to Vol 1 pages 6-7, where Darwin discusses Natural Selection, pages 275-278 unopened. Vol 2 unopened from 265-296, 321-328, 345- 432. First edition, second issue, with a two line errata on Vol 1 page vi, and the spine imprint on two lines, but with the first-state adverts dated April 1867 to volume 1, and February 1868 to Vol 2.