WHITE, Gilbert (1720-93). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, with an Appendix. London: T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789. 4° (255 x 194mm), two part-titles with engraved vignette, folding engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, one folding (plates spotted and a little browned, occasional offsetting.) Diced russia gilt by Barratt (hinges slightly worn, light scuffing to corners and spine head). Provenance: Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owner). FIRST EDITION. The only English edition published during the author's lifetime of "the only work on natural history which has attained the rank of an English classic" (DNB XXI, p.45). Rothschild p.690.