BRITISH AND EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS (Macrolepidoptera)

Undated, but c. 1890s. Tall 4to., (29.5cm x 21.5cm) in full olive green decorative cloth gilt, a.e.g., [xvi] + 273pp, indexed, illustrated with 30 coloured plates plus 8 black and white text figures. A clean copy with no previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. One gather loose at pp7-pp10, neat tape repairs to front and rear inner hinges, also to short closed tears at foot of two pages in the loose gather. Very light foxing to endpapers, boards have a few small handling marks, two scratches to rear and wear to all edges, dampstained area to lower outer corners that also slightly affects the gilt of the shelf edge, gilt to spine faded. A Good copy overall.