The versions Kirk has shown DO INDEED have altered title pages.
Kirk showed the book covers, and claimed the publishers had removed the subtitles out of embarrassment. The book cover never had the subtitle, and unless a book is a facsimile, wordy title pages of old books are often trimmed down.
Compare the title page of Pilgrim's Progress
here
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by W.R. Owens
with the
original title pageThe pilgrim's progress: from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country
I have used similitudes Hof 12:10
By John Bunyan
Or how about Gullivers Travels whose modern
title page
Gullivers Travels
Jonathan Swift
is slightly shorter than the
originalTravels into Several Remote
Nations of the World,
in Four Parts.
By Lemuel Gulliver,
First a Surgeon, and then
a Captain of Several Ships.
And yet it is right there in the introduction:
Introduction
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)[sup]1[/sup] is one of the major books of western civilization and possibly the last major scientific text fully readable by nonscientists. It was written before the full force of scientific specialization had created the division we are used to today: science written for scientists, and intelligible only to them, or popular science aimed not at
being science but at explaining it, and (usually) making otherwise too difficult scientific ideas attractive to the nonexpert.
The odd thing is, The Origin of Species isn't about human evolution, and if you want to know what Darwin meant by 'races' here are a few quotes
"the several races, for instance, of the cabbage..."
"When we look to the hereditary varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants..."
"It has often been loosely said that all our races of dogs have been produced by the crossing of a few aboriginal species..."
"if we account for our several domestic races by this process, we must admit the former existence of the most extreme forms, as the Italian greyhound, bloodhound, bull-dog, &c..."
"I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species..."
"In the time of the Romans, as we hear from Pliny, immense prices were given for pigeons; "nay, they are come to this pass, that they can reckon up their pedigree and race.""
"When a race of plants is once pretty well established..."
"Several most experienced ornithologists consider our British red grouse as only a strongly-marked race of a Norwegian species..."
"I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic..."
This was a common meaning of the word race in Victorian times, a meaning lost during the twentieth century, when race came exclusively to mean our fellow human beings and the ugliness and brutality of our treatment of each other.
