By T. H. White
London   Jonathan Cape
9" by 6" [6], 7-296pp
A bright first edition copy of this translated naturalist's scrapbook, with illustrations.
By T. H. White

1954 The Books of Beasts being a translations from A Latin Beastiary of the Twelfth Century

London   Jonathan Cape
9" by 6" [6], 7-296pp
A bright first edition copy of this translated naturalist's scrapbook, with illustrations.
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: 1kgs / : 843B18

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

A first edition copy of this work. 

This volume contains a translation of a twelfth century Latin prose Bestiary preserved at Cambridge University Library, a serious work of natural history, taking the form of a naturalist's scrapbook.

The work is complete with numerous illustrations of the original manuscript throughout the text. 

T. H. White was an English writer who is best known for his Arthurian novels. 

In the original clipped dust wrapper.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original clipped dust wrapper which is also excellent with some light marks to the rear wrap and chipping to the head and tail of the spine.

Fine

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