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![[picture: Front Cover, Gilbert White's Selbourne]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-346x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Gilbert White's Selbourne]")
Pictures from The Natural History of Selborne by The Rev. Gilbert White (1788). See the title page for more information about the book.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Gilbert White.
Title: The Natural History of Selborne
Published by: Frederick Warne & Co.
City: London
Date: 1879
Total items: 14
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Title Page (Natural History of Selborne)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/000-title-page-q75-132x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page (Natural History of Selborne)]")
Title Page (Natural History of Selborne)
The title page of the 1879 edition is as follows: [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, Gilbert White's Selbourne]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-138x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Gilbert White's Selbourne]")
Front Cover, Gilbert White’s Selbourne
Light brown with green florets, and “Natural History of Selbourne” in blakc on a gold foil background. [$]
![[picture: The Raven (Corvus Corax)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/234-The-Raven-Corvus-Corax-q75-178x200.jpg "[picture: The Raven (Corvus Corax)]")
There is a peculiarity belonging to ravens tht must draw the attention even of the most incurious—they spend all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish; and, when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling ot the ground. When [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Barn Owl (<i>Strix flammea</i>)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/164-The-barn-Owl-q75-187x200.jpg "[picture: The Barn Owl (<i>Strix flammea</i>)]")
![[picture: Beech.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/wm/big/004-Beech-q75-132x200.jpg "[picture: Beech.]")
“The high part of the south-west consists of a vast hill of chalkk rising three hundred feet above the village, and is divided into a sheep-down, the high wood and a long hanging wood, called The [...]beech, the most lovely of all forest trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pendulous boughs.” (p. 3) [more...] [$]
Pictures from The Natural History of Selborne by The Rev. Gilbert White (1788). See the title page for more information about the book.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Gilbert White.
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