The romance of insect life . interesting descriptions of the strange and curious in the insect world by Edmund Selous ... With twenty-one illustrations by Lancelot Speed & Carton Moore Park.
Edmund Selous (1857-1934)
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3091462
Summary
Bibliographic description
351, [1], 16 p., plates . ill.; 20 cm. Provenance: pictorial bookplate (wreath encircling book and butterfly): Vita her book [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]; hand coloured. Endpaper inscribed in ink: “Vita from Kenneth / Christmas 1905” [i.e. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) possibly from Kenneth Hallyburton Campbell]. Pencil scribble over bookplate and inscription. Binding: publisher’s blue cloth, decorated and lettered in red, white and gold.
Makers and roles
Edmund Selous (1857-1934)