An exceptional "Collectors copy" of the First Edition in original blind stamped publishers cloth & brown coated endpapers with 47 wood engraved figures throughout the text .Med 8vo. viii.147pps plus 40pp publishers catalogue dated April 1870. . Huxley is best known for his staunch support for the works of his friend and colleague Charles Darwin but he was also one of the most distinguished anatomists of the century and the first to establish the fundamental association of birds and dinosaurs.