Darwin (Charles)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection London,

fifth edition, tenth thousand, half-title, folding lithographic plate, original green cloth, ownership inscriptions of Churchill Babington, Cockfield Rectory, and another, to front free endpaper and half-title, upper hinge split and detached from book-block, corners bumped and worn, [Freeman F436], 1869; On the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, The Camelot Series, original cloth, n.d., 8vo. (2)

*** The fifth edition was the first to use the phrase 'survival of the fittest', taken from Herbert Spencer.

Churchill Babington was the cousin of Cardale Babington. He overlapped at Cambridge with Charles Darwin, and in 1829 they argued over who should have the pick of beetle specimens from a local dealer.