first edition Publisher's gray-green cloth with gilt spine.
1897 · London:
by Pearson, Karl
London: Edsward Arnold, 1897 First edition. Publisher's gray-green cloth with gilt spine. . Two volumes, octavo. . Photogravure frontispiece in each volume, plates, text illustrations. Spine ends lightly chipped, spines faded. Bookplates of American zoologist Charles Atwood Kofold (1865-1947) and of another owner from the 1950s in each volume. A good, tight copy. Karl Pearson (1857-1936), who founded the first university statistics department at University College London, made a major contribution to the methodology of science in The Grammar of Science (1892), established the discipline of mathematical statistics, and was Francis Galton's (1822-1911) leading disciple, applying statistics to the study of heredity and evolution. The Chances of Death and Other Studies in Evolution is an important collection of his early essays. (Inventory #: 15934)