The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, with observations on various parts of nature, and the Naturalist’s Calendar

Fore-edge painting. Double fore-edge painting. White (Gilbert) Edited, with notes, by Sir William Jardine Wood-engraved frontispiece, additional title-page and illustrations Nathaniel Cooke,  1853 New Edition    Contemporary red panelled morocco gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges and inner dentelles gilt. With two delightful and accomplished fore-edge paintings, one showing a cricket match, the other a landscape with two men shooting wildfowl in the foreground, one from the land and one from water Binding with the slightest wear at corners, upper hinge partly cracked, but a very nice copy; ownership inscription on front free end-paper   

Price: £1800