A comprehensive study of the natural and social history of the area of Southern and South-Western England known as Wessex. The author describes the countryside and the animals, birds, fish and plants that lived there both as a naturalist and as an artist, and brings to life a vision of the rural idyll of Wessex.
With an introduction by Frederick Brereton and illustrated by Marjorie Anderson
Wild Life In A Southern County by Richard Jefferies Wessex County
Title: Wild Life in a Southern County
Author: Richard Jefferies
Publisher: Collins Clear Type Press
Publication Date: Undated (c1940's)
Format: Leatherette with Slip CaseCondition: Blue Leatherette covers which are in a very good condition. The pages are bright and clean with a few illustrations throughout. Picture entitled ‘In The Forest’ to frontispiece. Previous owners inscription to front. Blue marble effect endpapers. The slip case has some scuffing and has come adrift at one end.
Book measures 16cm x 10.5cm with 378 pages.