The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

Book clubs postdate the book, so the reprint tells carry the whole burden. Only the 1789 quarto printed by T. Bensley for B. White and Son — with the errata leaf, the 292-for-262 misnumbering, the 441-442 pagination gap, both engraved titles and the seven plates — is the first edition. Any octavo, any edition dated 1802 or later, any newly illustrated edition, and any facsimile is a reprint regardless of how convincingly period the binding looks; donor copies are overwhelmingly likely to be later editions.