The butterfly book : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America / by W.J. Holland … ; with 48 plates in color-photography, reproductions of butterflies in the author's collection, and many text-illustrations, presenting most of the species found in the United States.
William Jacob Holland (1848-1932)
Category
Books
Date
1902
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100820
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 382 p., XLVIII leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 8vo. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Embossed stamp on front free endpaper: 'U.H.R. Broughton.' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's green cloth; single blind fillet to form an outer border on boards; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt stamped butterfly on spine; green top edge.
Makers and roles
William Jacob Holland (1848-1932), author