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WHITE. GILBERT. - Bewick. Thomas. Illustrates. - THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. In the County of Southampton. The Standard edition by E. T. Bennett. Thoroughly revised, wit additional notes, by James Edmund Harting. -- Stereotyped edition with ten letters not included in any other edition of the work. Illustrated with engravings by Thomas Bewick and others.

Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Ltd. London. -- No date. Circa 1900. Reprint of this Harting edition. 8vo. (8.7 x 6 inches). Fully illustrated with 59 engravings throughout the text. Some very light spotting to the blank endpapers and a few pages throughout, and a neat prize inscription, dated 1901, on the front free endpaper, but overall a very good copy in a fine early binding by Bickers and Son. Full tan tree calf. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. A brown morocco label, gilt. Compartments double ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Floral gilt border on boards. Board edges with diagonal gilt strips. Marbled endpapers. Inner boards with blind tooled floral border. All edges marbled. Gilt stamp of the arms of The Grange School, Folkestone, on the front board. A very good copy of this classic work in a beautiful leather binding.
GBP 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 437.5 US$ 503.93 | JP¥ 74137] Book number 11292

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