The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton. The Standard Edition by E. T. Bennett. Thoroughly revised, with additional Notes, by James Edmund Harting. Stereotyped Edition. With Ten Letters not included in any other Edition. Illustrated with Engravings by Thomas Bewick and Others. BRIGHT COPY OF HARTING'S 'SELBORNE'

Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with decorative title-vignette and 60 engraved illustrations and facsimiles in the text, half-title mildly browned; original red cloth, gilt back, gilt top, black endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Published in the series 'Library of Standard Authors'. The work as a whole comprises [1] 'The Natural History of Selborne'; [2] 'Observations on various Parts of Nature'; [3] 'A Naturalist's Calendar'; [4] 'The Antiquities of Selborne'; [5] 'Poems'; [6] 'Ten Letters from the Rev. Gilbert White to Robert Marsham 1790-1793', all of which have individual titles. The first work includes White's 'Advertisement'; the third work includes Dr. Aikin's Advertisement. The White-Marsham letters were first published in Harting's second edition (Bickers, 1876).When Swan Sonnenschein acquired the copyright to Bennett's edition the opportunity was taken to revise Bennett's notes and to illustrate the work by some of Bewick's engravings. The first Swan edition was published in 1887 and several times reissued culminating in this, the fourth and best Swan edition. A bright copy of an important edition. Martin, p.152.