Samuel Hieronymous Grimm of Burgdorf in Switzerland

xxxiv, 112pp, with numerous black and white plate illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Top edge gilt. Rubbed spine ends. Corners rubbed. Front free end paper has been removed, laid-in. Internally neat, clean, tight. All pages uniformly yellowed. 4to. Grimm is perhaps best known for producing the illustrations for Gilbert White's 'Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne', but he was a prolific artist and a talented painter. This is the first detailed account of his life and works.