Stainton, H.T. A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths. 1st. Ed. Pub. Van Voorst. 1857-1859
Two volume set with b/w. illus. throughout. Small 8vo. Hardbacks. Some neat, early and informed annotations to text, with some illus. hand-coloured. Contents in nr. fine condition. Contemporary half calf leather over marbled boards in good to vg. condition showing some rubbing and minor shelf wear. A very useable set.
Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822-1892) was editor of The Entomologist’s Annual and the Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer. Quite remarkably, in 1937, P.B.M Allan said of Stainton’s ‘A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths’ that it was indispensible (Salmon).
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