The Genera of British Moths: Popularly Described and Arranged According to the System Now Adopted By the British Musuem. Illustrated By a Series of Picturesque Plates Exhibiting the Insects in Their Different Ages With the Caterpillars and the Plants

Description:

Two vols bound in one. Backgrounds partly hand coloured. Colouring is better than in many of the later issues by T.J. Almann.

Henry Noel Humphreys (1810–1879), was an artist, naturalist, numismatist and polymath. He was born at Birmingham and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. As a young man he travelled extensively in Italy returning to England in about 1840. Humphreys became a successful book-illustrator, especially of works of natural history. He is also recognised as a significant designer of elaborate book bindings of the period. The decorative binding for this work was designed by Humphreys.

The aim of the volume as stated in the preface was to provide” a very complete account of all the genera of British Moths, and will to that extent, form a complete work, not merely consisting of sketches of some of the more prominent and attractive of the insects belonging to the class treated of, but a consecutive account, although in a popular form of the entire family of British Moths”.

Condition

Large-8vo. orig. dec. cloth, gt, aeg, spine slightly faded. Some scattered foxing. Vg.