Publications
The Richard Jefferies Society has published numerous titles by and about Richard Jefferies over the years, many of which are now out of stock. Those still available are listed below along with bargain price tags that include postage within the UK only. Overseas postage is extra – please contact the Society on richardjefferiessociety@btinternet.com
Books can be ordered online and by downloading and completing the order form or by emailing your instructions direct and organising payment.
A Peculiarly English Genius: a Biography of Richard Jefferies by Andrew Rossabi is an in-depth record of all that is known about the life and works of Richard Jefferies.
Planned as a four-volume set, Volumes I, II and III are now available as limited editions. Volume IV should be published in late 2026 to cover Jefferies’ final years. All volumes contain 800 pages including an Index and with black and white illustrations. All are printed in hardback with a green wibalin cloth cover but Vol I does not have a dust jacket.
Electronic versions (pdf) can be emailed direct for £10 a copy – email richardjefferiessociety@btinternet.com
Volume I was published on 6 November 2017 and covers Jefferies’ early years (1848-1867). The hardback can be purchased at the reduced price of £20 incl UK postage (list price £40). The book is also available as a pdf file for £10.
Volume II covers the years of struggle between 1867-1876. It was published on 8 July 2020 and is the same format as Volume I but with the addition of a dust jacket. It is available from the Society for £35 incl. UK postage (list price £60) or as a pdf file for £10.
Volume III was published on 1 January 2023, covers 1876-1883 and looks at Jefferies’ ‘Years of Success’. It can be ordered from the Richard Jefferies Society for £45 incl. UK postage (cover price £60) or as a pdf file for £10.
Amaryllis at the Fair
Sale Price:£3.00 Original Price: £6.00
Introduction by Carolyn Clarke (softback)
Ben Tubbs Adventures
Sale Price:£6.00 Original Price: £12.00
Introduction by Andrew Rossabi (softback)
The Scarlet Shawl
Sale Price: £3.00 Original Price £6.00
Introduction by Andrew Rossabi (softback)
Restless Human Hearts
Sale Price: £10 Original Price: £20
Introduction by Andrew Rossabi, 2008 (hardback)
NONFICTION
Richard Jefferies: An Index – Matthews & Treitel, 2008. (hardback)
Sale Price:£10.00 Original Price:£20.00
The Forward Life of Richard Jefferies – Matthews & Treitel, 1994. (hardback)
Sale Price:£10.00 Original Price:£15.00
Richard Jefferies: An Anthology – Matthews & Welshman, 2010. (hardback)
Sale Price:£10.00 Original Price:£20.00
The Interpreter: A Biography of Richard Jefferies – Audrey Smith, 2008. Introduction by Eric Jones (softback)
Sale Price:£3.00 Original Price:£5.00
Richard Jefferies’ Letters to Aunt Ellen, 2009 (softback)
Sale Price:£3.00 Original Price:£4.50
Some pamphlets related to Jefferies’ birthplace at Coate can be downloaded here:
Coate and Richard Jefferies by historian, John Chandler
In the Footsteps of Richard Jefferies – A Walk Around Coate Water
Richard Jefferies’ Old Town, Swindon – A walk around Swindon Old Town
Coate Farm and Bevis CountryIn the Footsteps of Richard Jefferies – AÂ tour of Wiltshire and Oxfordshire
RICHARD JEFFERIES NOTEBOOKS – MEMBERS ONLY
The British Library archives include Jefferies’ pocket notebooks that start in 1876 and finish 3 months before his death.
Only 16 of the original 24 or 25 remain. The others are likely to be in private hands– whereabouts unknown. Phyllis Treitel undertook the painstaking work of deciphering the hand-writing in the 1990s and copied the text and illustrations by hand. Many entries make no sense at all.
The text has now been typed up and is available to RJS members.
Looker published some of the contents in his The Nature Diaries and Notebooks of Richard Jefferies (1948) but Treitel’s version is complete. Extracts from Notebook IV (?) were included in Walter Besant’s The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies (1888). This notebook is among the missing ones and the extract of text has been included.