Accession number
PML 150231-33
Creator
Denton, Sherman F. (Sherman Foote), 1856-1937.
Published
Boston : J. B. Millet Company, c1900.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Paged continuously, all three volumes.
Originally issued in 8 sections, and published 1897-1900. Pt. I: The moths; pt. II: The butterflies.
Plates added to this edition, not in Bradlee Whidden edition.
Includes index.
"A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is copy no. 343."
"The colored plates, or nature prints, used in the work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; ... the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterwards colored by hand."--Preface.
Copyright held by Bradlee Whidden.
Number 81 of 500 copies.
Originally issued in 8 sections, and published 1897-1900. Pt. I: The moths; pt. II: The butterflies.
Plates added to this edition, not in Bradlee Whidden edition.
Includes index.
"A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is copy no. 343."
"The colored plates, or nature prints, used in the work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; ... the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterwards colored by hand."--Preface.
Copyright held by Bradlee Whidden.
Number 81 of 500 copies.
Description
2 v. in 3 (361 p.), [56] leaves of plates : ill., plates ; 26 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Red morocco full binding.
Classification
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Department