Second Edition 1888 Second edition, first issue, with no thousand given. The second edition features "some small corrections taken from Darwin's marked copy of the first edition, as well as textual additions and footnotes by his son which are all contained in brackets".Book is very good++ and very bright. In Original green cloth with light rubbing to edges. Very bright boards. Book is very strong and tightly bound. Nice clean contents. Bookplate to endpaper. Becoming very un-common in such bright tight condition.