Insect Life: Souvenirs of a Naturalist / Jean-Henri Fabre
Book
320 pages. Frontis, 16 black and white plates.
2015.7.232
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
InsectsBiology1900s
7-1/2 in
5 in
Jean-Henri Fabre
M. Prendergast Parker
U.K. Edition
London
England
1901
Publisher's Binding
Bound in olive green cloth with a stunning cover design stamped in gilt portraying insects at work in a tropical setting within a triple ruled border with beetles anchoring the corners. Motif repeated in elaborate gilt stamping to the spine. All edges gilt.
Margaret Roberts