The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton
( Gilbert WHITE ) HARTING, James Edmund
The Standard Edition by E. T. Bennett. Thoroughly revised, with 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.
HANDSOME COPY OF HARTING'S 'SELBORNE' IN STEREOTYPE
Published: Swan Sonnenschein, [1891]
Stock code: 29602
Price: £224.00
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with decorative title-vignette and 60 engraved illustrations and facsimiles in the text; handsomely bound in contemporary green full calf, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, broad doublures tooled with floral procession in gilt, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a most attractive, internally spotless copy.
The work as a whole comprises [1] 'The Natural History of Selborne'; [2] 'Observations on various Parts of Nature'; [3] 'A Naturalist's Calendar'; [4] 'The Antiquities of Selborne'; [5] 'Poems'; [6] 'Ten Letters from the Rev. Gilbert White to Robert Marsham 1790-1793', all of which have individual titles. The first work includes White's 'Advertisement'; the third work includes Dr. Aikin's Advertisement. The White-Marsham letters were first published in Harting's second edition (Bickers, 1876). When Swan Sonnenschein acquired the copyright to Bennett's edition the opportunity was taken to revise Bennett's notes and to illustrate the work by some of Bewick's engravings. The first Swan edition was published in 1887 and several times reissued culminating in this, the fourth and best Swan edition. A HANDSOME COPY OF AN IMPORTANT EDITION. Martin, p.152.