Author: Gosse, Edmund
Title: The Naturalist of the Sea-Shore: Life of Philip Henry Gosse
Description: Heinemann 1896 [4], x, 387, [1 - blank], portrait frontis. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, rubbed, corners bumped, spine slightly faded with light vertical crease. Old water stain to top inner corner of frontis, not affecting the portrait; front inner hinge cracked; contents page chipped to outer margin; some foxing to endpapers. Owner's name and ownership stamp to endpaper. A good copy of a scarce title.. A biography of the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) by his son, Edmund Gosse. Portrait frontispiece of P.H. Gosse.Second issue, published in Heinemann's 'Great Lives and Events' series. (The first issue was published in 1890 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co). Heinemann bought the remaining stock (1000 sets of the original 1890 edition having been originally printed) and reissued the original sheets with half-title and title leaves cancelled and replaced by a section of 4 leaves (1-2 publisher's adverts; 3 half-title with author's works on verso; 4 title with imprint note on verso). This second issue is scarcer than the original. Freeman & Wertheimer 405.

Keywords: Biography; Gosse


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