One hundred and twenty copper-plates of English moths and butterflies : representing their changes into the caterpillar, chrysalis, and fly states, and the plants, flowers and fruits whereon they feed : coloured with great exactness from the subjects themselves : with a natural history of the moths and butterflies describing the method of managing, preserving, and feeding them

Title Variants

Alternative: Copper-plates of English moths and butterflies

Alternative: English moths and butterflies

Uniform: English moths and butterflies

By

Wilkes, Benjamin, 1749 , author, artist

White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794 , bookseller

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for Benjamin White, at Horace's-Head, Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXIII [1773]

Notes

Copper plates drawn and etched by the author, from drawings and paintings of J.A. Rosel, George Dennis Ehret and Jacobus Van Heysum.

Originally issued as: The English moths and butterflies. 1749.

Error in pagination: plate IX misnumbered XI.

With hand-colored plates, as issued.

Initials; head- and tail-pieces.

ESTC, | T180666

Soulsby, | no. 3956

Subjects

@NEV Collectie , Butterflies , Early works , Early works to 1800 , Great Britain , Moths , Pictorial works

Call Number

QL555.G7 W6 1773

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 16895543