This beautiful book is titled "Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands", written by George A. B. Dewar and published in London by J. M. Dent in 1899, and it is a first edition that is limited and numbered 135 out of 150 copies made for sale in England and America, it was printed on hand-made paper, according to the limitation page, and it was bound by Zaehnsdorf, one of the top bookbinders in England in the 1800's. The book has five raised bands, with six compartments and gilt lettering and gilt decorations on the spine, with triple gilt-fillet borders and polished morocco on the covers, gilt dentelles with olive drab endpapers and "Zaehnsdorf" in gilt just above the dentelles on the front paste-down, the bookplate of Ophelia Fowler Duhme on the first blank endpaper, then the limitation page and a leaf which reads "The Haddon Hall Library ? Edited by the Marquess of Granby and Mr. George A. B. Dewar", a frontis of "Where The Blackcap Builds" with a protective tissue guard, then the title page, a dedication page, one page of Contents, a List of Illustrations, the text is 296 pages long, followed by an Index that runs from 297 to 304, there are five sepia plates, including the frontispiece, and two colored plates in the book, and the top edge is gilt. George Albemarle Bertie Dewar (1862 - 1934) was an English author, editor, and naturalist who was educated at Pembroke College, which was part of the University of Cambridge in England, and he was the author of Life and Sport in Hampshire, In Pursuit of The Trout, and The Book of the Dry Fly, among others. (The Book of the Dry Fly was an early work on Dry Fly Fishing and how it was used to catch trout and other aquatic creatures.) He also lived for some years in the village of Oakley and wrote children's books about nature. Ophelia Fowler Duhme (1854 - 1921) was born in Rochester, Minnesota and her bookplate shows the corner of a reading room; the motto on the bookplate reads "Inter Folia Fructus" and means "fruit among the leaves" - i.e., the leaves or pages of a book yield fruit or knowledge, and may refer to a poem by Walt Whitman. The book is 8vo. and measures 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. wide and is in very good condition. The binding is tight, the plates and text are clean, with light browning on a couple of edges in front and at the rear and a few brown spots in the margins, there's just a speck of rubbing at the crown and on one tip and just light offset from a couple of illustrations. The gilt has faded a tad on the spine, and there's a small chip on the front flyleaf and a small chip at the bottom of the leaf which describes the book being edited through the Haddon Hall Library, it's a very attractive limited and numbered first edition about birds and nature in the Hampshire Highlands, and it comes in a Zaehnsdorf binding. #120 #1652