Green calf spine with red title plate, Gilt banding and title on the spine. Green marbled boards. Red marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

F.B.A. provides an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

A very fine rendition with a superb collection of prints

An attractive edition of White’s magnum opus. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne had its origins in White’s correspondence with Daines Barrington and Thomas Pennant, in which they discussed their observations and theories about local flora, fauna and wildlife. White believed in studying living birds and animals in their natural habitat which was an unusual approach at that time, as most naturalists preferred to carry out detailed examinations of dead specimens in the comfort of their studies. This deceptively simple and unpretentious account of natural comings and goings in an eighteenth-century Hampshire parish has come to be regarded as one of the most perfectly realized celebrations of nature in the English language. The American writer J. R. Lowell once described it as ‘the journal of Adam in Paradise.’