The New Naturalist books are a series published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural history topics. Being a numbered series, with a very low print run for some volumes, they are highly collectable and second-hand copies of the rarer volumes, in very good condition, can command high prices. The series is on-going.
A parallel series of Monographs was also published, but there have been no additions since 1971.
Many of the jacket illustrations are by Robert Gilmore.
Volume 82, The New Naturalists, described the series to date, with authorbiographies and a guide to collecting.
The NewNaturalist Library is today a highly renowned series of publications, but in 1945, the idea was so radical that it was widely expected to be a flop.
This was the NewNaturalist; the amateur field naturalist who studied nature to better enjoy it and to better caretake it.
The "behind-the-bookshelf" story of the NewNaturalist Library - who the authors were and what they did; how each title was conceived and received; the much admired jackets; and the trials, tribulations and triumphs of what has been described as the most significant and long-running natural history series in the world.
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