The Butterfly Vivarium; Or, Insect Home H Noel Humphreys Entomology/Insects,Invertebrates,Natural History

A good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with hand coloured frontispiece and 7 further hand coloured plates. All page edges gilted. The binding is bright and clean. There is wear and some fraying to corners and spine ends and general rubbing to edges and spine joints. The gilt decoration on the front board and spine is bright. The spine is slightly dulled and there is some light marking to the back board. Contents: half title; frontispiece; title; preface; contents and plate lists; text pp 288 with 7 tissue-guarded plates. 3 pp of publisher's ads at the rear. The endpapers have adverts for the publisher's works at the fpd, and both rear endpapers. The contents are clean and sound. There is a small green paint stain in the bottom gutter of the title page, which has a couple of brown spots, and the tissue guard to the frontispiece has been removed. The half title has an ink inscription dated 1871 with ruled lines, and there is a signature to the plain side of the frontispiece. There is a pale stain at the bottom edge in the gutter that extends up just over half a centimeter at times and finally disappears around p 211. There is a light stain in the side margin of p255. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.