Publisher/Manufacturer: Gwasg Gregynog (Gregynog Press) Series title: The Natural History of Selborne
1930-1935 Wood engraving in black on white laid paper
221 x 147 mm. Purchase: Gwasg Gregynog / Gregynog Press 1988 Funding support: Catherine Lewis Trust
Number 4 of an edition of 20. The blocks for these illustrations were engraved in the early 1930s for Gilbert White's 'The Natural History of Selborne' but were not printed until 1988. Gilbert White's 'The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne' was first published in 1798. Trees and plants form an important part of The Natural History of Selborne. Gilbert White's garden in Selborne was a large part of his life, full of fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, tress and shrubs
Book illustration for Gilbert White's 'Selborne'. A stylised wood engraving of an apple? tree with roots, a trunk, branches, fruit and leaves. In the centre of the tree sits an alert heron on a nest. On the ground are flowers, and caricatures of a snail and a frog? Paper has the watermark '+N'[?], a monogram
