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BOOKS AND NATURALISTS (NN 112)

by David Elliston Allen

Published by Collins. 1st. 2010

Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. New Naturalist series 112. The author explores the often complicated ways in which books on the flora and fauna of these islands have been published through the years, from the earliest days of printing through to the era of the computerised distribution atlas and the giant multinational compendium. Limited edition to 75 copies. Leather binding with gilt titles and all edges gilt. B/w & colour illustrations.

This is Copy No. 34, SIGNED by author on a bookplate to front endpaper. A few small marks to gilt to outer page edges. Original slip case is still in excellent condition - light wear at edges.

ISBN: 9780007240845
Stock no. 2135913

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Contents

  • Editor's Preface
  • Author's Foreword and Acknowledgements
  • 1 Books and Naturalists
  • 2 The Earliest Authors
  • 3 Disguise Discarded
  • 4 Intermission
  • 5 The Linnaean Spring
  • 6 Zoology Catches Up
  • 7 The Linnaean Autumn
  • 8 Self-Help
  • 9 The Popularisation Explosion
  • 10 The Nineteenth Century Publishers
  • 11 Contingent Damage
  • 12 Victorian High Tide
  • 13 Wider and Deeper Still
  • 14 Local Floras and Faunas
  • 15 Shifting Ground
  • 16 A Jubilee of Monographs
  • 17 Edwardian Makeover
  • 18 Wanderings
  • 19 Direction Recovered
  • 20 New Naturalists
  • 21 Field Guides Aplenty
  • 22 New Uncertainties
  • Appendix : Some of the more notable part-works on Britain's natural history upto the mid-nineteenth century
  • Principlal Sources
  • References
  • Index
  • Picture Credits

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