Shelfmark
Gn.1.08
Author
Title
The natural history and antiquities of Selborne, in the county of Southampton: with engravings, and an appendix.
Varying form of title
Spine title: White's Natl. history of Selborne
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by T. Bensley; for B. White and son, at Horace's Head, Fleet Street, M.DCC.LXXXIX [1789]
Physical description
v, [3], 468, [i.e. 466], [14] p. : ill. ; 26cm. (4to)
Note
Advertisement signed and dated: Gil. White. January 1st, 1788, p. [iii]-v.
Note
Sig. 3P2 misnumbered 2P2.
Note
The appendices are in Latin.
Note
"The natural history" and "The antiquities" each have their own half-title.
Note
P.292 misnumbered 262.
Note
P. 441-2 are lacking in numbering only; the text is continuous.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T39642
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1997 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 9620, no.10).
Provenance
Pencil notes on front endpaper verso: "W. Bromley-Davenport copy" and "White lot w. £17.0.0".
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton (1852-1914) on front pastedown.
Provenance
19th-century armorial bookplate of Eton School Library on front endpaper recto.
Binding
18th-century speckled brown calfskin over pasteboards. Gilt fillet to form a border; transverse fillets over boards' edges and turn-ins. Spine with with five sewing supports, decorated with gilt tooled rolls of different shapes gilt titling over black label ("White's Natl. history of Selborne". Single endbands with plain thread.Textblock trimmed and sprinkled green. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) ad undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the texblock.
Copy-specific note
Ms. note about Gilbert White on Eton School Library notepaper inside front cover.
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnaean works.
Subject
Selborne (England) Antiquities Early works to 1800.
Subject
Selborne (England) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--name
B. White and Son bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B24875