'A History of British Butterflies' by Francis Orpen Morris. Original purple cloth with gilt tooling, pp.viii prelims, pp.156 not including 72 hand-coloured plates plus 2 further uncoloured plates, pp.24 appendix and pp.8 publisher's advertisements. Third edition, 1870.

This enduringly popular study of the butterflies of Great Britain by parson-naturalist, ornithologist and entomologist Francis Orpen Morris, was first published in 1853. The work is profusely and intricately illustrated with seventy-two hand coloured plates. 

     This early edition has been collated and remains complete, for further details please see condition notes. 

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