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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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BEES, WASPS, ANTS & ALLIED INSECTS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Edward Step.
Stock no. 1827624
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1932. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth, gilt titles, gilt vignette of bee with open wings to front. Colour illustrations. B/w photos. Wayside & Woodland Series. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Boards bright. Text block lightly browned. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Light browning and foxing to endpapers. Foxing to text block else contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper with pictorial onlay to front is a little grubby, browned to spine, worn at corners with slight loss.

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THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Richard South.
Stock no. 1827623
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1941. Very good condition.

Wayside and Woodland Series. A Pocket Guide with Descriptive Text. With accurately coloured figures of every species and many varieties, also drawings of Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Food-plant. Blue cloth, gilt titles, gilt vignette to front, colour and b/w plates. New edition. Cloth to rear board is 'bubbled', corners worn. Titles are bright. Text block lightly browned. Some foxing present. Contents generally clean.

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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND FERNS
Written by Edward Step.
Stock no. 1827622
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1936. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A pocket guide to the British ferns, horsetails and club-mosses. Small format. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Coloured illustrations. B/w photos. Boards clean and bright. Text block lightly browned. Name & date in ink to half-title page. A few foxspots present, mainly to prelims and last couple of pages. Contents generally clean. Green dustwrapper has a pictorial onlay to front, is heavily browned, worn at corners with a little loss.

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BUTTERFLIES AMD MOTHS OF THE WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND
Written by W.J. Stokoe.
Stock no. 1827621
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1939. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Wayside and Woodland series. Blue cloth boards, black titles and vignette to front board lower corner. Colour plates. Boards a little spotted and browned. Base of spine shelf-worn. Name & address in ink and bookplate to front endpaper. Foxing mainly to prelims and text block. Contents are generally clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is browned, edge-worn with a few small chips, a bit grubby.

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THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Richard South.
Stock no. 1326418
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1943. Almost very good condition.

Wayside and Woodland Series. Small format. Blue cloth, gilt decoration, colour and b/w plates. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Front joint at title-page has cracked. Spine browned. Spine and corners bumped.

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THE CATERPILLARS OF THE BRITISH MOTHS FIRST SERIES
Written by W.J. Stokoe; G.H.T. Stovin. Illustrated by J.C. Dollman.
Stock no. 1326415
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1958. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. Colour and b/w plates. First series only. 408 pages. New edition. Wayside and Woodland Series. New endpapers. Spine slightly bumped else covers bright. Wrapper price-clipped, edge-chipped with slight loss and faded spine.

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BRITISH PYRALID AND PLUME MOTHS
Written by Bryan P. Beirne. Illustrated by S.N.A. Jacobs.
Stock no. 1824127
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Wayside and Woodland series. 216 colour specimens, 16 plates. 207 pages. Boards clean and bright. Scattered foxing, mainly to prelims and endpapers. Text block browned. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, scuffed, closed tear to top rear edge of spine.

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FLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Charles N. Colyer; Cyril O. Hammond.
Stock no. 1824126
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Burgundy cloth, gilt titles and fly vignette to front. Colour & b/w illustrations. Wayside and Woodland Series. 383 pages including index. A few small marks to boards. Gilt is still bright. Text block browned. A few scattered foxspots to contents and a few grubby marks e.g. page 15 (see photo). Contents generally very nice. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, lightly faded to spine, lightly scuffed, front flap has had tape on it at some point which has stained the flap vertically with some loss of surface paper.

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LAND AND WATER BUGS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by T.R.E. Southwood. Illustrated by H.D. Swain; P. Entwistle; H.M. Entwishle; T.R.E. Southwood; Dennis Leston.
Stock no. 1824125
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1959. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Wayside and Woodland Series. Green leather-look covers with gilt and black titles. With 32 coloured plates by Swain. 31 b/w plates and 153 text figures by Entwistle and the authors. Text block mottled green. Boards bright. Text block browned. Small pencil erasure mark to front endpaper. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and edge-worn with a few closed tears and slight surface paper loss, tape mark to lower spine.

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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND THEIR EGGS
Written by T.A. Coward; J.A.G. Barnes. Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn; et al..
Stock no. 1822353
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Colour illustrations and b/w photos. Based on the original 3 volume work by Coward. Brown cloth, gilt titles and decoration. 359 pages including index. ISBN: 0723209995. Boards clean and bright. Browning to text block and endpapers. Strong musty odour present else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is browned and faded to spine.

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THE CATERPILLARS OF THE BRITISH BUTTERFLIES INCLUDING THE EGGS, CHRYSALIDS AND FOOD-PLANTS
Written by W.J. Stokoe.
Stock no. 1818329
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1961. Very good condition.

Wayside and Woodland Series. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. 248 pages including index. Boards a little grubby. Name & date in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers.

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