SELECTED WORKS BY RICHARD JEFFERIES [attractively bound, 18-volume set.]

London: Longman's, Green, and Co.; Duckworth ; Macmillan..., 1880. Book. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm). 1880 - 1904 Collection of seventeen titles bound in eighteen, including his eulogy, beautifully bound by Sotheran, an elegant and refined "arts and crafts" style; contemporary three-quarter morocco, gilt-decorated spines including floral motifs. Top edges strong gilt, other edges uncut; delicate marbled end papers. Several portrait frontispiece plates of Jefferies with tissue-guards. In near fine condition with minimal rubbing to extremities, the leather is a little faded to brown on the spines, binding firm. Contents clean and tight, a few fine spots to the endpapers, internally clean, no inscriptions.16 TITLES: HODGE AND HIS MASTERS, 1880, 1st edition, two volumes; THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS, 1884, 1st edition; THE OPEN AIR, 1885, 1st edition; THE AMATEUR POACHER, 1889 new edition; NATURE NEAR LONDON, 1893, hand-made paper edition; THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME, 1896, new edition; THE DEWY MORN, 1900 reprint; ROUND ABOUT A GREAT ESTATE, 1903 new edition; WILD LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY, 1903 new edition; WOOD MAGIC, 1903 new impression; RED DEER, 1903 5th impression; AMARYLLIS AT THE FAIR, London 1904, new impression; BEVIS, 1904 new impression; THE STORY OF MY HEART, 1904, 8th impression; THE TOILERS OF THE FIELD, 1904, new impression; FIELD AND HEDGEROW, 1904 new impression plus Walter Besant: THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES, 1898, 1st edition. An attractive collection of Jefferies works uniformally bound..