Jeffries, Richard

The Amateur Poacher. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879, 8vo (189 x 124mm.), original dark brown pebble-grain cloth, blocked in black and gold, black endpapers, [Sadleir 1304; Wolff 3614], some slight wear to spine; Amaryllis at the Fair. A Novel. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887, 8vo (196 x 133mm.), original pictorial dark green cloth, blocked in black, yellow and gold (daffodil design on spine and upper cover), slipcase, [Sadleir 1303; Wolff 3613], slipcase, minor foxing and offsetting; World's End. A Story in Three Books. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1877, 8vo (196 x 140 mm.), three volumes, first edition, with 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end of volume one, original dove grey cloth blocked in black, spine lettered in gilt, [Sadleir 1318], presentation copy inscribed by the author to his aunt on half-title to volume one ("Ellen Harrild With the Author's Love July 10th 1877"), recased with new endpapers, slightly bumped; The Scarlet Shawl. A Novel. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874, 8vo (190 x 135 mm.), first edition, half-title, with cancel dedication leaf, red half calf, [Sadleir 1314, Wolff 3624], lacking advertisement leaves; The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878, 8vo (192 x 137 mm.), first edition, half-title, original green cloth blocked in black and gilt, [Sadleir 1307, Wolff 3618], cuttings on the author's death tipped in on front endpapers, slightly bumped; Wild Life in a Southern County. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879, 8vo (195 x 135 mm.), first edition, half-title, original green cloth blocked in gilt, black, and blind, slipcase, [Wolff 3626]; Hodge and His Masters. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880, 8vo (192 x 135 mm.), two volumes, first edition, half-titles, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end of volume two, original dark brown cloth, blocked in gilt with pictorial devices on upper covers and in blind, [Sadleir 1309, Wolff 3620], recased with new endpapers, slightly bumped; Wood Magic; A Fable. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881, 8vo (202 x 137 mm.), two volumes, first edition, half-titles, 8 pp. publisher's catalogue at end of both volumes, original dark green cloth blocked in black, slipcase, [Sadleir 1317, Wolff 3627], hinges weak, slightly rubbed, early ownership inscription erased on title-pages; Bevis: The Story of a Boy. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882, 8vo (181 x 130 mm.), three volumes, first edition, half-title to volume one only (as called for), 32 pp. publisher's catalogue dated December 1881 at end, original brown cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt on covers and spines [Sadleir 1305, Wolff 3615, Carter, Binding Variants, pp.121-22, binding A] (13 volumes)

World's End: Ellen Harrild, the author's aunt, presentation inscription; Frank Brewer Bemis, bookplates

Wild Life: Kirwan J. Fernie, bookplate

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Nine first editions by the writer and mystic Richard Jefferies, one of "the purest and most sensitive observers of nature England has produced" (Andrew Rossabi, Oxford DNB).