Search Results: The Dragonflies Of the British Isles by Cynthia Longfield

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.

London: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1937. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 220, very clean internally, green cloth, very slightly worn, the spine slightly faded. [From the library of the botanist David McClintock, with his signature on the front endpaper, his bookplate opposite the half-title and several extra ilustrations slipped in.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

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… Read More

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.

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.