Varieties of British Butterflies

F. W. Frohawk

Verlag: Ward, Lock & Company Limited, London, 1938

Beschreibung

The first edition of Frohawk's colourfully illustrated study on British butterflies. The first edition of this work.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and forty-seven colour plates.Collated, complete.A beautiful work exploring the natural history of butterflies, detailing all different known varieties in this interesting piece of lepidopterology.Written and illustrated by F. W. Frohawk, an eminent lepidopterist, the first to rear every species of British butterflies from egg to adult. His fascination with butterflies began at the age of seven, when he saw a caught a rare pale clouded yellow butterfly.Frohawk was encouraged in this career and this work by Lord Walter Rothschild, a zoologist of the eminent Rothschild family.Bookplate of Jonathan Bulmer to the front paste down. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the cloth. Bookplate to the front paste down. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with small chips and closed tears. Dust wrapper is tide marked, with a few other lighter marks. Age-toning to the spine and front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 927P21

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Varieties of British Butterflies

Verlag: Ward, Lock & Company Limited, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1938

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: F. W. Frohawk

Zustand: Very Good Indeed

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: First edition.

Art des Buches: book