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THE NEW NATURALISTS (NN 82)

Written by Peter Marren
Published by Collins in 1995
ISBN: 000219998X

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THE NEW NATURALISTS (NN 82)
Written by Peter Marren.
Stock no. 1816266
1st. 1995. Hardback. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 82, 50 years, half-cenenary edition. The behind-the-bookshelf story of the New Naturalist Library: who the authors were and what they did; how each title was conceived and received; the much admired jackets; and the trials and tribulations and triumphs of what has been described as the most significant and long-running natural history series in the world. With bibliography. Colour and b/w photos. Plain endpapers. 304 pages including index. ISBN: 000219998X. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Pictorial dustwrapper with '50 years' celebratory sticker to front panel is slightly faded to spine (as is usual with this series).

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Cover of THE NEW NATURALISTS (NN 82) by Peter Marren

Contents

  • 1. A New Natural History
  • 2. A Lunch and its Consequences:
  • Introducing the New Naturalist editors
  • Planning the series
  • Commissioning the titles
  • A New Naturalist Board Meeting
  • 3. 'The Full Beauty Of Their Natural Colours...':
  • Collins and Adprint
  • Eric Hosking and his photographers
  • Illustrating the books
  • Some photographic highlights
  • Colour and critics
  • 4. The Graphic Image: the New Naturalist Dust Jackets:
  • How the jackets are printed
  • Background: Clifford and Rosemary Ellis
  • C & RE: the Ellis jackets
  • The Gillmor jackets
  • 5. E.B. Ford and Butterflies:
  • The life and opinions of E.B. Ford
  • Writing and illustrating Butterflies
  • The bestseller
  • Moths and afterwards
  • 6. A Question of Style:
  • The Old Masters: the first dozen books
  • National Parks and the regional books
  • Co-authorship
  • The evolving series
  • 7. Naturalists All:
  • New Naturalist childhood
  • Teachers and moss-gatherers
  • World adventurers
  • Fraser Darling and Morton Boyd: 60 years of Scottish natural history
  • 8. The Pursuit of a Species: the Monographs:
  • Monography
  • The making of a natural history classic
  • The sad story of Ants
  • The special volumes
  • An eye for a bird
  • The scientists take over
  • Postscript: My First Book by Miriam Rothschild FRS
  • 9. The Also-rans and the Books-that-never-were:
  • The missing masterpiece
  • Molluscs, marshes and other gaps
  • The New Naturalist journal
  • The Country Naturalist and the Countryside Series
  • The Fontana paperbacks
  • The Bloomsbury hardbacks
  • 10. Crisis and Recovery
  • 11. Nature Conservation and the New Natural History
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Appendices