RICHARD JEFFERIES. — Wild Life in a Southern County.

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., London [1927], A reprint of the third edition, issued here in the 'Edinburgh Library of Non-Fiction Books' series. 8vo. 384pp. Maroon cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust soiled and with some toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, which is a little chafed, and has been re-backed onto brown paper. A sticker alters the 2/6 net price on the front panel to 2/ (but the original price still shown on the spine panel). A book-length selection of country essays (primarily observations in and around Coate, Wiltshire and Surrey), which was originally serialised in the 'Pall Mall Gazette' in forty-six instalments from between May and December 1978 before appearing in bookform a year later. Miller & Matthews B9.19., Very Good, Good