xiii, [3], 249 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth spine over decorative paper covered boards (gilt, blue, and orange pattern). orange paper spine label with black stamped title & rule, blue jacket with gilt stamped titles & design (jacket design inspired by excerpt taken from Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne, entitled A Spider's Web in the Window). Frontispiece and illustrations throughout text (ten full-page) by Henry S. Sands. A collection of short pieces on a variety of topics, including: faeries; Boswell's Johnson; sunlight effects in pictures; the origin of part singing; etc.
