British Dragonflies (Odonata)

Description:

1st edition. Imprint to spine 'Upcott-Gill'. This version has patterned end-papers incorporating the publisher's intials 'LUG' and 4-page publisher's catalogue to rear. There is a variant version with 'Bazaar Exchange & Mart' as the imprint on the spine, which has plain end-papers, lacks blank leaf following p. xiv and the publisher's catalogue to rear. Both editions are otherwise identical.

Freeman 2352.

Condition

8vo, orig. dec. cloth; patterned end-papers. A very good copy from the library of K.G.V. Smith (1929-2017), leading British dipterist at the Natural History Museum, London, and editor of the Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, with his signature and note regarding the present book's provenance - Smith's pencil note to the book-plate states the book was bought by him in 1959 from Blackwell's in Oxford, and that it had belonged to Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828-1917). Pickard Cambridge was an English zoologist and clergyman, who published on British spiders, including The Spiders of Dorset (1879-1881). He was born in Bloxworth, Dorset, and succeeded his father as rector there in 1868. Occasional, marginal pencil annotations, indicating the occurrence of species in Bloxworth (and occasionally elsewhere), are almost certainly made by Pickard-Cambridge.