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London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A decent clean and complete copy with college library stamp and blank lending list to fep. The dustwrapper is virtually complete with a little loss to top and tail of spine, also browning and label removal mark to spine.
The Dragonflies of the British Isles by Longfield, Cynthia - 1949
by Longfield, Cynthia
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The Dragonflies of the British Isles
by Longfield, Cynthia
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London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1949. econd edition, enlarged. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 255, a little foxing to the top edge and to the margins of the half-title and opposing page, minor foxing to the fore-edge, the remains of a single figure price can be seen indented on the front endpaper.green cloth just very slightly marked, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is slightly worn and chipped around the edges, the spine is slightly faded and the pictorial inlay on the upper cover is foxed. [This buff dustwrapper appears to be the early one; it is priced at 17/6 .]. Second edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn.
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- Edition Second edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Frederick Warne & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1949
- Keywords odonata.
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The Dragonflies of the British Isles
by Cynthia Longfield
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THE DRAGONFLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES: Wayside and Woodland Series
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2nd Enlarged edition. "Containing a descriptive History of all the British Species with illustrations from Photographs & drawings and 12 Colour Plates from original drawings prepared by W. F. Evans and 4 Colour Plates by C. O. Hammond. "Lovely Colour Plates illustrated with several Dragonflies.Green cloth cover with bright Gilt Dragonfly & title on front. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Rounded 'corners'. All page edges speckled Green.256 p.pages, 7" tall, 410g.Previous owner's bookplate with Armorial bearing on endpaper. No inscriptions.
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The Dragonflies of the British Isles
by Cynthia Longfield
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London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1949. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". W. F. Evans; C. O. Hammond . A smart second edition of this brightly illustrated study on the dragonflies of the British Isles. Second edition, enlarged. Illustrated with sixteen colour plates, forty-two black-and-white plates, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed study on the dragonflies of the British Isles, with the life-history of the dragonfly, a key to the identification of species, wings and bodies of dragonflies, methods of collecting, classifications, and more. Written by Cynthia Evelyn Longfield, an Anglo-Irish entomologist and explorer who was the first female member of the Entomological Society. Illustrated by William Frederick Evans and Cyril O. Hammond, both British entomologists and illustrators. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Minor age toning to the…
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The Dragonflies of the British Isles. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
by LONGFIELD Cynthia
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Warne,, [1949]. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers, neat initials of front free endpaper; original series binding of green faux-morocco, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, radial corners, a very good, bright, clean copy. An entomological classic, first published in 1937. In this revised edition the original drawings by Dorothy Fitchew are replaced with plates of coloured drawings printed by lithography. Often known simply as 'Cynthia', this was THE dragonfly field guide until Hammond in 1977. Marren, pp.169-169.
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