Charles Darwin and The Voyage of The Beagle, Nora Barlow, Pilot Press, 1945. Chiswick Press.

Charles Darwin and The Voyage of The Beagle. Edited with an introduction by Nora Barlow.

Published by Pilot Press Ltd, London, 1945 first edition. Printed to War Economy Standard. Printed at the Chiswick Press, London by Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd.

A good blue cloth hardback with titles to front and spine. Ex-library (Department of Education and Science; H.M. Inspectors' Library), with reference number near tail of spine, signs of label removal to first free endpaper, and stamps to blank area of title page and verso, and sticker to rear cover. The cover with light soiling and wear. Mild sunning to spine. Bookplate and bequest sticker from 'Eileen Andrews' on first pastedown, along with small bookseller's sticker. 

The text itself is bright and clean throughout. A few pages with small corner creases. All soundly bound. With portrait frontispiece of Charles and Catherine Darwin as children, 1816. Map is very good with no tears.

Text in English.

Prelims + 279pp + Plates (16 including frontispiece) + fold-out map at rear (all as called for).

Dimensions: approx 222mm high x 148mm wide x 18mm deep.

Weight: approximately 374g (unpacked).