WHITE, GILBERT.

London, T. C. Hansard, 1825. 8vo. VIII,351 pp. & 2 engraved plates, one of which is hand-coloured + (4),364 pp. & 2 engraved plates. Two volumes, full calf, rebacked in the early 20th century preserving original boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, attractively tooled in gilt with morocco labels, slight wear to upper joint of volume II, extremities lightly bumped, corners a little worn. Foxing to plates and adjoining leaves. With the armorial bookplates of G. T. Nichols and Leonard Brassey, and the signature and bookplate of Gunnar Brusewitz.

Martin A bibliography of Gilbert White 110 calling for two plates only. Wood An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology 625 giving the coloured plate as a frontispiece. An attractive copy of the fifth edition of White’s classic work, with the inclusion of ”A Naturalist’s Calendar”, additional observations and some poems. Of particular appeal in this edition published by C. and J. Rivington is the hand-coloured plate of a ”hybrid bird”, found here at p. 73 in volume I, but often used as a frontispiece. Gunnar Brusewitz illustrated a Swedish edition of White’s book, which was issued in 1963 under the title ”Naturen i Selborne”.