Since Peckham's list is likely to remain the standard bibliography of the work for a long time, it is worth while to summarise here the few apparent errors which I have noticed in it. The author's minor changes in the printing of 1876, which seem to have been ignored by all subsequent editors and even by the publisher's themselves, are brought to light, although Peckham was only able to see the issue of 1878. The bibliography is an adjunct to the variorum text which shows the great changes which Darwin made to the five editions which follow the first. His work includes consideration of paper, type and bindings, as well as giving summaries of John Murray's accounts for each printing. Peckham considers all editions and issues published in England of which he was aware, from the first of 1859 up to the thirty-ninth thousand of 1890. Horblit One hundred books famous in science, 1964, Grolier Club. The first edition also has a full bibliographic description in H.
This, certainly the most important biological book ever written, has received detailed bibliographical treatment in Morse Peckham's variorum edition, 1959. On the Origin of Species An introduction by R.
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