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Humphreys, Jennet.
Insect Ways on Summer Days.
Publisher: Blackie and Son Limited, London; Glasgow; Dublin; Bombay;
Date of Publication: 1900
Stock Code: 9492
Prize binding. Octavo, pp. 192. With frontispiece plate, and black and white illustrations throughout. Bound in full polished green calf with gilt Southey Hall School armourial centrepiece and gilt roll borders; gilt rolled board edges; five raised spine bands with gilt rolls and ornaments to spine compartments, and red goatskin spine label with gilt titles; magenta marbled fore-edges and endpapers. Sunned spine with some offsetting and mild toning throughout, with printed prize label finished in ink in 1906, to front pastedown. A tight, square clean Very Good copy. Attractively bound with charming illustrations introducing children to death-head moths, whirligigs, tarantulas and other insects. £40.00