The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne & A Garden Kalendar 1900 edition two volume set – in custom leather binding by Karen McGuire
The Reverend Gilbert; Sharpe, R. Bowdler
$1,250.00
Place Published: London
Date Published: 1900
Illustrator: b&w illustrations
Size: 2 volumes 8vo
“The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne & A Garden Kalendar by The Reverend Gilbert White M.A. edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., with an Introduction to the Garden Kalendar by The Very Reverend S. Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester, & numerous illustrations by J.G. Keulemans, Herbert Railton & Edmund J. Sullivan in two volumes”; Gilbert White’s classic work detailing the natural history of the area around his family home at the Vicarage of Selborne, composed in the form of a series of letters to Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington; here in a new custom binding by fine art binder Karen McGuire – full green leather with four compartments to each spine, being two red labels with gilt titling, bird and cloud motifs to top compartments, the lower compartments with gilt illustrations: vol 1 showing a tree in bloom with a mobile hare, vol 2 with tree, lake and foliage, and birds overhead; gilt borders to boards front and rear; new marbled endpapers, new prelims; both volumes with frontispiece plates, and copiously illustrated throughout with full-page engravings, text drawings, and fold-out facsimile letters; a superb art binding enhancing Gilbert White’s enduring natural history; title pages and text blocks foxed, occasional light foxing in text, o.w. both volumes Very Good.