New Forest
Subtitle: its history and its scenery
By: by John R. Wise ; with 63 illustrations by Walter Crane, engraved by W. J. Linton, and two maps.
Contributors: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915; Linton, W. J. 1812-1897; Leighton, John, 1822-1912; Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.
Edition: Third Edition.
Publisher: Henry Sotheran & Co; H. M. Gilbert
Published: 1880
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Natural history -- England; New Forest (England : District)
Notes: Sheets are the same, except for t.p., as an 1867 edition of this title published and printed by Smith Elder, and Co.  See McLean O 666.  Wood engraved plate (except for typeface of caption text), illustrations and map are the same as those used in an 1863 edition of this title, also published and printed by Smith, Elder, and Co. See McLean O 665.

Includes "Appendices.": p. [277]-328 and "Index.": p. 329-336.

Author's "Preface." dated 1862.  Includes "Preface to the Second Edition.", dated 1863 and printed as a paragraph at the end of the first Preface on p. viii.

Engraved plate entitled "Map of the New Forest" is unsigned and without imprint.

MASS copy: Bound in green diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as MacLean O 666.  Upper cover blocked in gold with the same central almond-shaped panel design, and both covers blocked in blind with the same animal imagery as blocked in gold on both the upper and lower covers of McLean O 665.  Spine blocked in gold with central part of the same design and image of a crane as blocked in gold on McLean O 665.  Upper cover and spine with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton]. Boards with bevelled edges.  With brown painted endpapers.