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GILBERT WHITE IN HIS VILLAGEby EMDEN, Cecil S., Illustrated by Lynton Lamb
Book description: London: Oxford University Press, 1956. First edition. xv, 139pp, including index. Illustrations at beginning of chapters. Hardcover in very good+ condition, maps on endpapers. Dustjacket in good condition, slightly rubbed along top and bottom edges. Taken from Introduction - "This brief study of Gilbert White amounts to a character sketch, and does not aim specifically at supplying biographical information. In the pages that follow, White is set against a village background. He is depicted as a member of the local community, and as a naturalist who in many aspects dependent on the cooperation of his neighbours. A good deal of attention, too, is paid to the scenes of his investigations"..
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