Wild Life in a Southern County
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1881. Hardcover. New Edition. xii, 387, [1] p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and front cover decoration. Black-stamped decoration on front board with same blind-stamped on back board. Dark brown endpapers. Title vignette of the anemone leaf drawn by the author and used by the publisher after 1880 in Jefferies' works. A collection of essays originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette by the nature writer Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) about Coate and the Marlborough Downs area of England, now part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A few unopened pages. A wonderful picture of both the natural world and rural English life in the mid-19th century. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed with minor loss at tail of spine; head of spine just starting to fray; boards are slightly discolored; front hinge a little loose; pages are clean. Very Good -. Item #003304
Price: $32.00