Stainton, H.T. Insecta Britannica. Lepidoptera : Tineina. 1st. Ed. Pub. Lovell Reeve 1854
pp.viii, 313 with ten uncloured plates to rear. 8vo. Hardback. Period owner’s label to front paste down. Minor tape residue to endpapers, very occ. mark to margins o/w. contents fine. Slight lean to text block. Original cloth binding with blind decoration in vg. condition.
Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822–1892) was an English entomologist. He served as an editor for two popular entomology periodicals of his period, The Entomologist's Annual and The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer. He was the author of A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths (1857–59) and with the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller, a Swiss, Heinrich Frey and another Englishman, John William Douglas, of The Natural History of the Tineina (1855–73)
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