"With accurately Coloured Figures of every species and many Varieties, also Drawings of egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and food Plant, and including the new generic names."
Lovely Colour Plates illustrated with several Butterflies.
Green cloth cover with bright Gilt Butterfly and title on front. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Rounded 'corners'. All page edges speckled Green. 212 p.pages, 460g, 7" tall.
Previous owner's bookplate with Armorial Bearing on endpaper. No inscriptions except oldbookseller price and ref. penciled on ffep.

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Bookseller: Cornish Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 19257
Title: THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Author: South, Richard
Format/Binding: Decorative Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1947
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Nature/insects/Butterflies/Wayside and Woodland/Illustrated Books
Bookseller catalogs: Illustrated Books; Nature;
Size: 12mo

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...