Colored Plates of the Butterflies of the West Coast

Description:

The advertisement (following the title page) for this book states "These colored plates...are sample copies of the plates which form the illustrations of "The Buterflies of the West Coast"...and these plates in sets are now offered as an abridgement of that book, as an advertisement of it, as the best possible substitute for the more costly book..."

Condition

Cloth, worn; 5 cm tear to top of rear joint; damp stains to boards; hinge cracked and slack; endpapers browned. Good. Ownership signature of A.M. Morley, author of 'List of Butterflies and Moths occurring in the neighbourhood of Folkestone' (1931).