The Natural History of Selborne, with Observations on various Parts of Nature, and The Naturalist’s Calendar
WHITE, Gilbert
With Additions and supplementary Notes by Sir William Jardine. Edited by Edward Jesse.
SECOND JESSE WITH ERRATUM AND BINDER'S TICKET
Published: Henry G Bohn, 1854
Stock code: 18438
Price: £134.00
8vo., Second Edition thus, with engraved frontispiece (lightly age-soiled) and 40 engraved plates (a few plates lightly spotted; one plate neatly repaired), neat contemporary signature on frontispiece verso (spotted) contemporary inscription on List of Illustrations; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, sides elaborately blocked in blocked and lettered in blind, backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, covers a trifle faded, corners lightly bruised, expertly recased with original endpapers preserved, a very good, bright, crisp copy in the publisher's binding.
With front endpaper advertisement leaves in blue, and 8pp publisher's catalogue at end, AND THE ORIGINAL BINDER'S TICKET OF BURN OF KIRBY STREET ON REAR PASTE-DOWN. Jesse's edition was first published in 1851 in Bohn's Illustrated Library. In Addition to the stated contents it includes the short biography of White, the letter supposed to have been written to Miss Mulso by Timothy the Tortoise, and 'Poems'. The Letters are arranged chronologically (thus mixing those to Pennant and Barrington). This first reissue incurs an erratum on p.18 (noted on p.iv) which was successively overlooked in the subsequent reissues of 1870 and 1872. Freeman 3976.10; Martin, pp.143.