Wonders of Insect Life by F. Martin & L. T. Duncan - No date

Henry Frowde, 1910. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tan boards, pictorial pastedown on front board, a little rubbed. Lovely color endpapers. B/W and color plates throughout. Bookplate an some light foxing. Undated c. 1910

Hodder & Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 84 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white and colour photographic plates. Light foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters, exposing netting and causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Front pastedown slightly peeling away from board. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with moderate tanning and scuffing overall. Noticeable chipping to joints. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

London: Humphrey Milford. vi 86pp, hardback, with colour frontis and colour and bw plates, decorated title page, pasted colour illustration to front board, spine and board part faded, neat ownership signature to front paste-down . Good. Hardcover. reprinted. 1931.

London: Humphrey Milford , 1940. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 84pp. Colour frontis. Illus. 1940 repirnt. D/w is chipped to edges. Private ownership. (a0). Hard Cover. Good/Fair.

Oxford University Press. 1941. Reprint. No DW. Slim "Ladybird" size 8vo. 84pp. Illustrated in b/w with 4 coloured plates. The frontis shows an orchid spider catching a fly, the spider looks exactly like an orchid flower bud. Original tan cloth, illustration to front cover. Cloth sl. soiled, contents clean and fresh. VG+.

London: Henry Frowde, 1915. Cloth. Good. 7" by 5". Not Stated. A scarce collection of the six parts of the Wonders of Insect Life series in one volume, with colour illustrations. Scarce collection. Illustrated with twenty-four colour plates, eighteen black-and-white plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of the six parts from the Wonders of Insect Life Series, including: Butterflies and Moths; Bees, Wasps, and Ants; Beetles and Flies; Insect Life in Pond and Stream; Some Curious Insects; and Spiders and Scorpions. Containing a detailed guide to the lives and habitats of insects. Written by Francis Martin Duncan, a British naturalist and nature documentary pioneer, and L. T. Duncan, a British naturalist and writer. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Hinges are tender but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd… Read More

Henry Frowde Hodder and Stoughto, 1917-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. NOT ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still very useable.