The Student's Darwin : Edward B Aveling : 1st Edition 1881 : Darwinism

The Student's Darwin

By Edward B Aveling

Published by Freethought Publishing Company, London, 1881. First Edition. Scarce. Hardback book, cloth binding, 8vo, pp xii, 339, [viii]

CONDITION
A good first edition. The cloth binding is good with a little wear to the spine ends and there is a little wrinkling to the cloth at the front board's fore-edge. Missing front blank endpaper. Half-title page a little brown with age. All contents present and pages in good clean condition throughout. No foxing, stains, names etc. Overall a good first edition of this scarce title.

Edward Bibbins Aveling (29 November 1849 – 2 August 1898) was an English comparative anatomist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism and socialism. He was also a playwright and actor.

Aveling was the author of numerous scientific books and political pamphlets; he is perhaps best known for his popular work The Student's Darwin (1881); he also translated the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, and Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. He was elected vice-president of the National Secular Society in 1880-84, he was a member of the Democratic Federation and then a member of the executive council of the Social Democratic Federation and was a founding member of the Socialist League and the Independent Labour Party. During the imprisonment of George William Foote for blasphemy he was interim editor for The Freethinker and Progress. A monthly magazine of advanced thought. With William Morris he was the sub-editor of The Commonweal. He was an organizer of the mass movement of the unskilled workers and the unemployed in the late 1880s unto the early 1890s and a delegate to the International Socialist Workers' Congress of 1889. For fourteen years he was the partner of Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, and co-authored many works with her.

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