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George Bell, London, 1870. 72 hand-coloured plates and 2 in b&w. Large 8vo (10 1/4 x 7 inches), pages: 159:24. Original blue cloth blocked in blind and pictorially in gilt. Headbands worn, paper of upper inner joint cracked but firm. Signature on recto of frontispiece else very good.

Hardcover. Very Good. Roy 8vo 1860 71 colour plates, 2 line drawings complete. Original cloth, sl. fraying to head and tail of spine. Good early example, with well coloured plates

LONDON. GEORGE BELL & SONS. 1870. REBOUND WITH ORIGINAL BOARDS. ORIGINAL SPINE OVERLAID. SOME SPOTTING ON PAGES. 72 COLOUR PLATES. 5TH EDITION. SLIGHT DAMAGE TO THE TOP OF SPINE.

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: 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:: George Bell & Sons,, 1870.. Fifth Edition.. publisher's green cloth with gilt-stamped butterflies and flowers on upper cover and spine. . Three preliminary leaves (including title) and front endpapers stamped with an English hotel ownership label; ink names on pastedown; several neat annotations relating to butterfly observations; joints starting but nevertheless sound; only occasional and very light foxing. . Small folio,. With seventy-two coloured plates. Tipped in is an A.N.s. from the author, relating to eggs.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1857. viii, 168, 29, 71 col + 2 plain plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, cont. full panelled morocco, gilt and black rules to both boards with decorative gilt corner motifs, raised bands to spine with gilt rules to compartments, aeg, marbled endpapers, gt inner dentelles. Some light rubbing/scuffing and a few very minor marks to rear board. Some heavy foxing to endpapers, title, the two plain plates and adjacent text leaves, occasional light spotting elsewhere, slightly heavier to one plate, which also has browning to inner edge where a bookmark has previously been located. One plate bound inverted. A finely bound copy. Very good.. First reissue (first published 1853). Fine hand-coloured plates, printed by Benjamin Fawcett.McLean 15..

London: George Bell & Sons, 1870. viii, 159, 24, 72 col + 2 plain plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, cont. full red calf, rubbed/minor wear, raised bands to spine, gilt tooling to compartments, black leather title piece, marbled edges and endpapers, gt crest to boards. A few contemporary ink annotations to text; minor scattered foxing. Vg.. 5th edition. Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893) was a Church of England clergyman and naturalist. The present book was the standard butterfly book of the second half of the 19th-centruy, and today is considered a lepidopterological classic. Text and plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett. 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..

4to original blue green pictorial cloth, gilt lettering on spine and gilt illustration on spine and top cover, illustrated with 79 color plates, 234 pp. Binding is worn and frayed at extremities, spine split and torn, especially on at top edge, hinges a are weak, front endpapers are loose. a couple of preliminary pages with edge tears or folds, but not affecting plates or text, normal aging and browning; plates generally clean and bright. Morris' (1810-1893) work contains 79 hand colored plates, and a couple of black and white lithographs illustrating the tools of the trade for collecting butterflies. Each plate usually contains two or three illustrations, and is followed by a detailed description.

1864 History of Butterflies Butterfly ART Naturalist Entomology 69 PLATES

"A History of British Butterflies" by notable 19th-century parson-naturalist, Rev. Francis Orpen Morris is a pictorial scientific treatise that explores the fascinating world of entomology, specifically focusing on British butterflies. This book provides an exhaustive classification of butterflies and includes a detailed analysis of their anatomy and organization. Moreover, the author's descriptions are accompanied by 69 vivid, hand-colored plates depicting the variety of butterfly species found throughout Great Britain. This book was written to provide information on British butterflies that the author himself had sought but had been unable to find in other works.

Item number: #40975
Price: $599

MORRIS, Rev. F.O.

A History of British Butterflies.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1864.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
o viii, 168, 29, [1]
o 69 hand-colored plates
o 2 black-and-white full-page plates
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London: John C. Nimmo, 1895. Eighth Edition. Cloth. Near fine. Eighth edition of A History of British Butterflies by the Reverend Francis Orpen Morris.. Quarto, viii, [1]-234pp, [1]. Teal cloth, title in gilt on black morocco label affixed to spine. Stated eighth edition on title page. Slight bow to covers, faint sunning to spine, wear to covers. Untrimmed pages. Offsetting to endpapers, previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise clean internally. Complete with 79 full-page hand-colored plates, plus two uncolored plates. Front wrapper for original Parts I and VI bound in at end of volume.

London: Groombridge and Sons, 1853-1856. Hardcover. Good.. A complete set of F O Morris's works, uniformly bound. Plainly bound in brown buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Edges are bumped and the boards are lightly stained. Yellow endpapers. Pages are age tanned with occasional slight foxing. Beautiful coloured engravings, which are in remarkably good condition. 4to A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds (3 volume set): Water damage to Volume 2 and rear of volume 3. Tissue guards. A History of British Birds (6 volumes) : Loose pages in some volumes but all present. Volumes 1 and 2 have split shoulders. Volume 6 has water damage and the binding is bowed. Pages are age tanned with occasional slight foxing. Superb coloured engravings, which are in remarkably good condition. Previous owner's pencilled signature on title page of Vol 1 (Dowager Lady ?). Although the condition of the bindings is only fair, this is a fine set. A History of British Butterflies (1 volume) A rare… Read More