Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life

A deluxe edition, limited to 110 copies, of which this is No. 74. Bound in full cream vellum, with gilded owl on green leather tipped onto from panel, gilt titles to spine; top edge gilded, all other edges deckled, red satin ribbon marker bound in. Printed on hand made paper. xxiv, 338pp, with wood engraving by Eric Fitch Daglish for frontispiece and eleven further similar full page illustrations. 4to.  Vellum boards are moderately brown spotted, bruised at spine ends and a little sunned on spine; ribbon marker fraying at end; internally neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. A truly handsome volume containing William Henry Hudson's recollections and reflections on his early, tranquil childhood in Argentina, recalling the wonders of nature and wild life that moulded his thinking. Hudson, a naturalist, author and ornithologist, was an advocate of Lamarckian evolution, a critic of Darwin's theory of evolution, but achieved much of his fame through his sensitive books on the English Countryside and British Birds.