Jefferies Richard Eric (3 results)

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2016). 2016 1st edition. 8vo paperback (148 x 211mm). Ppxxvi,260. Not illustrated, introduction by Eric Jones. Fine new copy. The editor presents Richard Jefferies' agricultural articles from The Livestock Journal and Fancier's Gazette. They were published unsigned or under pen-names, in 1877 and '78, Jefferies' authorship being confirmed by the research of Simon Nowell-Smith. The articles range widely over topics of interest of the moment, economics and costings of various activities, the workings of new machinery, crops, fertilisers, and much more. .

Condition: Good. No jacket. Mild shelf wear. Light fading along spine. Minor tanning and foxing, mainly to endpapers and edge of text block.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Published in 1981 in a limited edition of 170 copies. 8vo. pp. 14, [ii]. Unbound proof copy and various material relating to the publication of the book contained in a plastic file cover. Galley proofs mostly with corrections, two dated 17.12.80., and two dated 9.1.81. with a photocopy of the introduction with corrections. Two A4 typed copies of the text 5pp., recto only with corrections and one A4 typed copy of an earlier rough version of the introduction 2pp., recto only. Small mock up of first eight pages with handwritten notes as to what will appear on each page. Initials of Joan Stevens on some of the contents and some of the corrections in her hand. A previously unpublished essay by Jefferies on streamside observations and a poacher taking a pike. The Daedalus Press was based at Stoke Ferry, Norfolk. Joan Stevens the feminist bookseller and expert on John Cowper Powys and Edward Thomas died in 2015. Richard Jefferies (1848 Ğ 1887) was a major writer about rural life and nature. George Miller was Jefferies' biographer and with Hugoe Matthews edited an authoritative bibliographical study. Very good.