A History of British Butterflies by Morris, F.O - 1876

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London: John C Nimmo. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with edge wear. Spine with end wear and at lower joint. Illustrations bright. Ex.-lib. with minimal marking. 1895. 8th edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). 234pp, + addenda. 79 hand coloured plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .

London: Bell and Daldy, 1870. Third Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 256 pages, plus 24. 72 colored plates, plus two black and white plates. Blind stamped burgundy cloth, with gilt stamped butterflies on top cover, and lettering and decoration on spine. Spine is a little faded, and covers are rubbed and show a little wear at spine ends and corners. First plate, opposite title page, is torn out, though laid in place. Volume remains tight and other contents are clean and intact. All plates are accounted for and in very good condition.

London: John C. Nimmo. Bound in blue cloth with two gilt butterrflies and plant motif to front board, this 1890 6th Edition is VG. Book has been rebacked but without title lettering. V111/184pp with 72 hand-coloured plates plus double page illustration of apparatus required for collecting and displaying. Both sides of second front endpaper are foxed, as is blank verso of frontis illustration. Second front endpaper carries an inscription, and rear second endpaper also foxed both sides. Board corners are sightly rubbed and rebacked spine has faded unevenly. Page 23 has horizontal 6 inch closed tear. Some faults but internally VG . Very Good. Hardback. Sixth Edition. 1890.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1904. viii, 234, [2], 79 col + 2 plain plates. . HB. 4to (250x180mm), cont. half leather, minor rubbing to joints, corners slightly worn, raised bands to spine, gt tooling to compartments, teg, other edges uncut, marbled endpapers. Very good.. Ninth edition, with 79 plates specially corrected for this edition, and all coloured by hand; two additional uncoloured plates illustrating butterfly collecting equipment..

London: Bell and Daldy, 1870. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 7.5". Not Stated. The third edition of the immensely popular study on the butterflies native to Britain by F. O. Morris, beautifully illustrated in colour throughout. The third edition of this popular work.Illustrated with seventy-two hand-coloured plates, and two monochrome plates.Collated, complete. Francis Orpen Morris' beautiful study on the butterflies of Great Britain, a wonderful technical exploration of the many different species and breeds, looking into their nature and lives.Morris was a parson-naturalist and pioneer for the movement to protect birds. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, a little worn, with a small amount of loss and lifting to the head of the spine. Spine is faded, with a little fading to the front joint, and fading to the rear board. Minor bumping to the tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light marks to the boards and spine. Small bump to the fore edge of the front board. Front hinge is… Read More

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1860. viii, 168, 29, 71 col + 2 plain plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, recased in orig. green cloth, gilt, minor rubbing. Occasional spotting/foxing. Very good.. Early reissue (first published 1853).McLean 15..

London: Groombridge & Sons, 1853. vi, 168, 29, 71 hand-col + 2 plain plates. . HB. 4to (260x160mm), cont. half-calf, some light wear, marbled boards, rubbed, recently rebacked, leather title piece. Light spotting/foxing to some plates. Publisher's printed advertisement slip for 'No. 1 of The Train A First-Class Magazine' tipped in at rear. A very good copy.. First edition. This book was the standard butterfly book of the second half of the 19th-centruy and went through many editions; it is now considered a lepidopterological classic. Plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett and coloured by hand. Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893) was a Church of England clergyman and naturalist. McLean 15..

London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. viii, 159, 24, 2 plain + 72 hand-col plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, rebound in recent half-leather, raised bands, gt tooling to spine compartments, leather title piece. Old, faint stain to fore-edge. Occasional marginal pencil annotations and foxing. Plates clean and bright. A very attractive copy. From the library of Michael Bryant, Hampshire ornithologist, with his bookplate.. Third edition. With attractive hand-coloured plates..