Antiquarian Book By Edward Newman - Extensive and illustrated guides to British butterflies and British moths by Edward Newman, bound together in one volume, with illustrations by George Willis. Two works bound in one volume, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board and spine. Top edge gilt. Two natural history guides, one on British butterflies and the other on British moths, by the English entomologist and botanist Edward Newman (1801-1876), bound in one volume. These works are illustrated throughout with numerous in-text illustrations by George Willis; the illustrations were engraved by John Kirchner. The two works were originally published separately as Illustrated Natural History of British Moths(1869) andIllustrated Natural History of British Butterflies (1871). This later edition combines the two books. In the publisher's original cloth binding.
