The Dragonflies of the British Isles by Longfield, Cynthia - 1949

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.

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.

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.