A book for both Design & Darwin fans. A unique edition of the evolutionary changes made to one of the most important books ever written
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Be part of a unique edition to one of the greatest and most important books ever to influence science and religion.
Mock-up of the book
A typographic edition of Charles Darwin's "" showing all the evolutionary changes made to the book over the last 154 years.
The possibility of producing the full complete book of On the origin of the species with an over lapping semi transparent page showing all the edits and changes made to that page. story and the evolutionary changes are combined and can be easily compared. All in to one book!
Again I am really excited about this. Following on from all of your great comments and feedback, I have spent the last couple of days looking into the possibility of producing such a book. It seems that this possibility could become reality thanks to all the support so far.
However before we can get too carried away with this. There are a few things that I need to double check first.
—Firstly I need to make sure that reproducing the full text from the sixth edition is not going to infringe on any existing copyright that might be in place.
—How I am actually going to design a book that contains another 420 pages. Also finding the right type of semi-transparent paper that would show the edited text on top but also allow the full printed text on the page below to show through.
—I would have to consider having to look at adding a stretch goal to factor in the extra paper costs, postage rates etc. From my initial research in to production costs etc. I think a stretch goal of £21k would have to be met. I know it seems quite a leap but you would be getting twice the book!
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