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British butterflies : figures and descriptions of every native species, with an account of butterfly development, structure, habits, localities, mode of capture, and preservation

by: Coleman, W. S. (William Stephen), 1829-1904; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Hill, Henry A., former owner. DSI; Garrett, C., former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1885

Topics: Butterflies, Butterflies

Publisher: London ; New York : George Routledge & Sons

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

"A cheap edition of this work, in boards, with plain illustrations, is also published, price 1s."--Verso of half title

Publisher's advertisemets on verso of t.p

Some of the plates hand-colored

Colophon: London: Printed by Woodfall and Kinder

Includes bibliographical references and index

SCNHRB copy (39088013483607) has [4] p. of publisher's catalog at end

SCNHRB copy inscribed in pencil on original 1st front free endpaper: Henry A. Hill August, 1885

SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on original 1st front free endpaper: Printed about 1885. Pencilled ms. annotations on verso of some of the plates and occasionally in text; ink ms. numbering of some sections

SCNHRB copy stamped in ink on front free endpaper and half title: C. Garrett

SCNHRB copy bound in original brown publisher's cloth binding, black and gilt decoration, title in gilt on spine, bevelled edges, yellow endpapers