8vo. 519pp, [1]. With half-title, an engraved title page, engraved portrait frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Original publisher's decorated green cloth boards, with original printed pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper chipped and spotted, with some marginal tearing. Internally clean and crisp.

A new illustrated edition, in original dustwrapper, of Bevis, a semi-autobiographical adventure story by nature writer Richard Jefferies (1848-1887). First published in 1882 as a more grounded sequel to his earlier fantasy novel, Wood Magic: A Fable (1881), this edition is furnished with engravings by eminent book-illustrator E. H. Shephard (1879-1976), universally recognised for his work illustrating iconic children's tales such as The Wind in the Willows and Winnie the Pooh.