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London: Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1892. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". E. A. Smith; J. B. Zwecker; G. Pearson. A smart new edition of this study of British insects, with illustrations throughout. New edition. With over seven hundred illustrations, including a colour frontispiece and twenty monochromatic plates. Collated complete. A popular account of British insects, their structure, habits, and transformations, with chapters on various species and their characteristics. Written by John George Wood, an English writer and reverend who is considered to have popularised natural history with his writings. Illustrated by E. A. Smith, a British artist, and Johann Baptist Zwecker, a German illustrator of books and magazines. Engraved by George Pearson, a British engraver and artist. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1872. hard cover. Good/No jacket.  New York:Charles Scribner and Company. 1872.  xx+670pp+4pp ads. Illustrated, with upwards of 700 figures by E.A. Smith and J.B. Zwecker, engraved by G. Pearson. Hardcover. Ex-library, with call numbers to bottom spine edge, library bookplate to inside front board and small red library stamp to title page as well as to a corner of all plates.  Rust boards with gilt on front cover and spine strip lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges and spine ends chipped and frayed, as well as worn along spine gutters. The edge points are bumped and worn to boards. Top page edges are gilt but soiled along other page edges. Internally, black endpages slightly soiled with off-set from library bookplate to 1st free end-page. Prelims are lightly foxed, with off-set from color frontispiece to verso of half-title and title page. Otherwise, aside from an occasional smudge or spot of foxing scattered… Read More

London: Longmans, Green and co, 1883. Reprint (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xx, 670pp. With upwards of 700 figures by E A Smith and J B Zwecker, engraved by G Pearson, including a coloured frontispiece and 20 b&w plates. Attractively bound in ful-brown calf, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers and page edges. There is some rubbing of the boards, a bookplate and gift inscription, and the preliminary pages are foxed. Overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1892. xx, 670, col frontis, 20 b/w plates, 79 woodcut illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. dec. cloth, gt, aeg, minor wear to extremities. Light foxing to prelims; owner's name to front pastedown; binding a bit slack with some gatherings starting to become detached; one leaf (pp 391-394) loose. A good copy in a bright binding.. New edition. Illustrations by E.A. Smith and J.B. Zwecker, engraved by G. Pearson..

Longman, Green and Co. London. 1872. Red half leather binding, raised bands, gilt decorations. Marbled boards, edges and end papers. xx, 670pp. Colour frontis with tissue guard that is slightly torn. Ownership signature to front end paper and to title page, dated 1878. Outer edges shelf rubbed. Internally a clean copy,

Longmans, Green & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1872. No Edition Stated. Half-Bound Leather. Green half-bound leather and gilt top page ends and marbled endpapers; covers have some rubbing w/several small tears, owner's name stamped on flyleaf, "323" in grease pencil on verso of FFEP, pages lightly toning; illustrated; 670 pages .

1883. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1883. 8vo. Fine orig. pictorial brown cloth. Richly gilt. All edges gilt. Chromolithographed frontispiece. XX,669 pp., Publisher's announcements 24 pp. Textillustrations and 20 plates. A weakness in the sewing on one gathering. Internally clean and fine.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1872. Green half leather, green cloth boards, panelling and gilt titles/decs to spine, AEG, marbled endpapers. Extremities rubbed, spine lightly tanned and scuffed, foxing to prelims, front hinge cracked, otherwise clean and solid. A couple of the butterfly plates have been very neatly hand coloured.. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Philadelphia: William Rutter, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. fine. First edition. Hardcover in incised emerald green cloth with gilt figure of an insect on front cover and gilt lettering and two insect figures on the spine. A tight, bright, virtually as new example. xx + 670 pp. with systematic index, alphabetical index with over 700 full- and partial- page illustrations (the frontispiece apparently was omitted from the first printing). An exemplary example.