The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life

[Richard Jesfferies]

Verlag: Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1880

Beschreibung

The first illustrated edition of this work on natural history and agriculture, with illustrations throughout by Charles Whymper. The first illustrated edition. First published in 1878 by the same publisher.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and numerous monochrome vignettes by Charles Whymper.In the publisher's original gilt cloth.This agricultural work was written anonymously by Richard Jefferies and provides a detailed study of game keeping, rural living and agriculture. The work depicts a picture of the life of a gamekeeper, based of his friendship with the keeper of the Burderop estate. In the publisher's original gilt cloth. Externally very smart with rubbing and bumping to the extremities slight marks to the boards and small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Internally firmly bound with pages lightly age toned to the extremities and generally clean with spotting to the blanks, frontispiece and title page. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 905Z29

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural ...

Verlag: Smith, Elder & Co., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1880

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Charles Whymper

Zustand: Very Good

Art des Buches: book