James Edmund Harting | Recreations of a Naturalist, 1906, the author's copy, annotated

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The Property of the Downside Abbey General Trust

James Edmund Harting

Recreations of a naturalist. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (216 x 140mm.), portrait frontispiece, illustrations, some authorial annotations, numerous cuttings, letters, photographs and pieces of ephemera pasted in or loosely inserted, original cloth with falcon’s hood motif gilt on upper cover, occasional spotting, binding slightly rubbed

THE AUTHOR’S COPY, with numerous insertions.

LITERATURE:

Swift 258.01

PROVENANCE:

J.E. Harting, bookplate; Downside Abbey, stamp

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