THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S VADE MECUM: with a Synoptical Table of BRITISH BUTTERFLIES.






Book Description
An Exceptional "Collectors Copy" in the original marbled boards and printed label Cr.8vo. 169pps Uncut. Hand coloured frontispiece and one other colour plate + 3 tissue guarded engravings all by the author The Second, 'enlarged' edition of the only work written by Laetitia Ford, nee Jermyn which first appeared in 1824 published by her father a book seller in Ipswich. Unusually for the time she was allowed by her family to develop an interest in insects and was greatly encouraged by her neighbour, the Reverend William Kirby of Barham to whom the book is dedicated.
Author
JERMYN, Laetitia. (Mrs Laetitia Ford)
Publisher
IPSWICH Printed & Sold by J. Raw London 1827
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