Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

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