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.
Selous, Edmund
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257486
Summary
Bibliographic description
351, [1] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "150 / net / 4X= / 10/5". Erratum slip tipped in at p. 13. Provenance: Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & Stationers, / Union Square / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): spider in its web with bird and flowers; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped dragonflies, gilt lettering and red and white stamped dragonflies and caterpillar on spine.
Makers and roles
Selous, Edmund, author Lancelot Speed (London 1860 - Southend on Sea 1931), illustrator Moore-Park, Carton, illustrator