
Jones, William et al. Iconotypes. A Compendium of Butterflies & Moths or: Jones’s Icones Complete. 1st. Ed. Facs. Ed. Pub. Thames & Hudson. 2021
pp.687 with col. illus. throughout. Small 4to. Fine hardback. In-print at £64.99.
William Jones's ‘Icones’ contains finely delineated paintings of more than 760 species of Lepidoptera, many of which it described for the first time, marking a critical moment in the study of natural history. Jones painted the butterfly and moth species between the early 1780s and 1800, drawing from his own collection and the collections of Joseph Banks, Dru Drury, Sir James Edward Smith, John Francillon, the British Museum and the Linnean Society. For every specimen painting he provided a species name, the collection from which it was taken and the geographical location in which it was found. With Iconotypes Jones's seminal work is published for the first time, accompanied by expert commentary and contextual essays, and featuring annotated maps showing the location of each species.
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