THE WRITINGS OF GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE.
Selected and edited with an Introduction by H. J. Massingham. With wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious. In two volumes. Pp. xxxii+312(last colophon)+viii+356+[2](blank, colophon), pictorial title page and decorations in each volume (mainly pictorial headpieces), 2 maps (one folding, the other full page), appendix, index; roy. 8vo; grey buckram, spines lettered and decorated in gilt compartments, upper boards with vignette in gilt, several of the fore-corners lightly bruised, spines slightly browned; top edges gilt on the rough, others uncut; within marbled papered slipcase, edges worn; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1938. Edition limited to 850 numbered sets. McKitterick 114. *The binding design is also by Ravilious. 'A comprehensive edition of Gilbert White. It includes the Natural History in full, the Antiquities of Selborne with very slight omissions and six years of the Naturalist's Journal (which forms a sequel to the Natural History, and which had only appeared as a separate book in 1931); a selection from Gilbert White's private letters is also included' [McKitterick, p. 246]. Item #184535
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