The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne In the County of Southampton

Description:

The standard edition by E.T. Bennett, thoroughly revised with additional notes by James Edmund Harting. With ten letters not included in any other edition of the work. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick and others. Stereotyped edition. The Harting edition was first published in 1875 by Bickers & Son, and reprinted, with the addition of the ten letters from White to Robert Marsham as an Appendix, several times from 1876. This issue, with the imprint Swann, Sonnenschein to title page has a printed slip tipped in at title page, stating that the book was now published by George Allen & Unwin (Martin gives date as April 1911, but there is no date printed on the slip).

Martin p. 152.

First published in 1789, The Natural History of Selborne is one of the most popular books in the English language and haas been continuously in print ever since, running to many editions. Gilbert White is widely regarded as the father of ecology and the forerunner of all modern natural historians.

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth, gt, decorative tooling to spine. Society bookplate to endpapers, small neat ink stamp to verso of title page, label removed from foot of spine Good.