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BEES, WASPS, ANTS & ALLIED INSECTS OF THE BRITISH ISLES (WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND SERIES)
Written by Edward Step.
Stock no. 1828950
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1932. Very good condition.

Wayside & Woodland Series. Brown cloth, gilt titles, gilt vignette of bee with open wings to front. Pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations. B/w photos. 238 pages including index. Lower edges of boards lightly rubbed. A few light marks to boards else clean and bright. Text block lightly browned. Name in ink to title page. Else contents clean.

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THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Richard South.
Stock no. 1828949
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1945. Very good condition.

Wayside and Woodland Series. New Edition. With accurately coloured figures of every species and many varieties, also drawings of Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Food-plant and including the new generic names. Green cloth, gilt decorations, colour and b/w plates. Blue speckled text block. Pictorial endpapers. 212 pages including index. Reprint.Boards lightly rubbed /worn at edges. A few marks to boards. A few foxspots to prelims else contents clean.

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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND FERNS (WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND SERIES)
Written by Edward Step; A. Bruce Jackson. Illustrated by Mabel E. Step.
Stock no. 1828948
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1947. Very good condition.

New Edition. A guide to the British ferns, horsetails and club-mosses. Small format. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Blue speckled text block. Pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations, b/w illustrations and photos. 144 pages including index. Reprint. Lower edge of boards lightly rubbed. Covers clean and bright. Text block lightly browned. Name in red pencil to front endpaper. Endpapers a little grubby. Contents clean.

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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND BLOSSOMS (3 VOLS)
Written by Edward Step.
Stock no. 1828946
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1941. Very good condition.

Wayside and Woodland series. New Edition. Red cloth with gilt titles and vignette. Pictorial endpapers. Colour plates & b/w illustrations. Red speckled text blocks. Series I & III are reprints 1944. Series II is a first printing 1941. Lower edge of boards of all three volumes lightly rubbed. Some corners lightly bumped. Text blocks lightly browned. Contents are generally clean, perhaps a few light foxspots present. Hinge pulled at page 97 of Series III. A nice set.

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THE SPIDERS AND ALLIED ORDERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES (WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND SERIES)
Written by Theodore H. Savory. Illustrated by Florence M. Brummitt.
Stock no. 1828887
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1953. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Second Edition. Wayside and Woodland Series. Descriptions of every family of British spiders, every species of harvestman and false scorpion, also the more familiar of the British mites and sea-spiders. Brown imitation leather with gilt and black titles. Pictorial endpapers. 63 figures in colour. 130 illustrations and 88 diagrams. 223 pages including index. Reprint. Light rubbing to base of spine. Text block lightly browned. A few minor marks to contents but generally clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn with a few small chips, top of spine missing, rear panel grubby.

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THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES SERIES I (WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND SERIES)
Written by Richard South; H.M. Edelsten; D.S. Fletcher.
Stock no. 1828877
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1973. Very good condition.

New Edition. 4.75 x 6.75 inches. Edited and revised by H.M. Edelsten and D.S. Fletcher. Blue illustrated endpapers. Coloured frontis plus colour and b/w illustrations. With accurately coloured figures of every species also drawings of eggs, caterpillars, chrysalids and food plants. Series I. Blue boards, gilt titles. ISBN: 0723200017. Reprint. Boards clean and bright. Text block lightly browned. Large black felt-tip label with symbol to front pastedown. Light browning to endpapers and prelims.

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FLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES (WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND SERIES)
Written by Charles N. Colyer; Cyril O. Hammond.
Stock no. 1828876
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Wayside and Woodland Series. Burgundy cloth, gilt titles and fly vignette to front. Pink pictorial endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. 383 pages including index. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards (shelf-wear) else boards clean and bright. Text block is lightly browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is in three pieces: detached at front spine edge and rear flap. dustwrapper is very worn and creased, faded at spine, some loss including most of the lower half of the spine.

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THE DRAGONFLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES (WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND SERIES)
Written by Cynthia Longfield.
Stock no. 1828875
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 2nd 1949. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Second (Enlarged) Edition. A descriptive history of all the British Species of Odonata or Dragonflies. Wayside & Woodland series. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Pictorial endpapers. B/w photos, colour illustrations. 255 pages including index. Light rubbing to top & tail fo spine and lower board edges (shelf-wear). Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is worn and rubbed with some chipping, creased with a few large tears, annotation in ink to rear dustwrapper flap.

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GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS AND COCKROACHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES (WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND SERIES)
Written by David R. Ragge. Illustrated by H.D. Swain.
Stock no. 1828874
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Burgundy imitation leather boards with gilt titles, gilt vignette to front. 22 colour plates and 130 text figures. Top edge red. Larger format for this series... 8.75" x 6". Includes a companion vinyl record "Songs of the British Grasshoppers & Crickets". Top front corner of board lightly bent. Rubber stamped black symbol to front pastedown. Text block lightly browned. One or two light margin marks else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and worn with loss - large piece of loss to top front panel affects the title. Companion record is NOT included (is MISSING).

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THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES SERIES II (WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND SERIES)
Written by Richard South; H.M. Edelsten; D.S. Fletcher.
Stock no. 1828873
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New edition. Wayside and Woodland Series. Blue textured boards with gilt titles and vignette. Plain endpapers. Colour and b/w plates. Blue mottling to text block. 379 pages including index. ISBN: 0723200025. Reprint. Boards clean and bright. Text block lightly browned and a little grubby. Large black felt-tip label with symbol to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned. A few minor foxspots mainly to top margins. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed & worn with a few small chips, foxing to wrapper flaps.

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BEETLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES (TWO VOLUMES)
Written by E.F. Linssen.
Stock no. 1828261
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1959. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Wayside & Woodland Series. Maroon leatherette covers with gilt titles and vignettes. First series - comprises The Superfamilies Caraboidea, Palpicornia, Staphylinoidea and Diversicornia. Second Series - comprises - The Superfamilies Clavicornia, Heteromera, Lamellicornia, Phytophaga and Rhynchophora, and Including the Strepsiptera. Colour and b/w plates with numerous text figures and diagrams. Speckled text block. Series two has a minor knock to lower front board. Top edge of text block lightly browned. Front endpaper of both volumes has an 'Acc no' written in ink to top (neat). Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrappers are edge-rubbed with a few small splits, slight fading to spines, slight grubbiness to rear panels. Overall, a lovely set.

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COLLECTING AND BREEDING BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS
Written by Brian Worthington-Stuart.
Stock no. 1827625
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignettes. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. Wayside and Woodland series. Glue to front board holding down cloth is starting to dry out (cloth moves slightly). Spine is lightly sunned. Text block lightly browned. A few minor foxspots and some light browning to prelims. Blue dustwrapper with pictorial onlay to front is creased, a couple of small closed tears to lower edge (no loss) and a little marked.

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