MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A History of British Butterflies, London: George Bell, 1876, large 8°, fourth edition, 72 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, original pictorial cloth gilt (spine detached and partially lacking), bookplate of Francis Hugo Lindley Meynell. With 44 other books, most natural history, including Kirkman's The British Bird Book (4 volumes, 1911-13), a rather worn copy of Sowerby's British Wild Flowers (1890) and William Meyrick's The New Family Herbal (1790). (45)

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MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A History of British Butterflies, London: George Bell, 1876, large 8°, fourth edition, 72 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, original pictorial cloth gilt (spine detached and partially lacking), bookplate of Francis Hugo Lindley Meynell. With 44 other books, most natural history, including Kirkman's The British Bird Book (4 volumes, 1911-13), a rather worn copy of Sowerby's British Wild Flowers (1890) and William Meyrick's The New Family Herbal (1790). (45)

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