English School, early 19th century
A beautifully presented album of lepidoptery containing 30 pages of British pressed butterfly and moth wings, with the bodies, caterpillars and flora finely added in watercolour
butterfly and moth wings with watercolour on paper, contained within a red straight grained morocco album with gilt tooling to front and back boards and spine, watered silk endpapers and metal clasp
9¼ x 7 3/8in. (23.5 x 18.8cm.)
English School, early 19th century
A beautifully presented album of lepidoptery containing 30 pages of British pressed butterfly and moth wings, with the bodies, caterpillars and flora finely added in watercolour
butterfly and moth wings with watercolour on paper, contained within a red straight grained morocco album with gilt tooling to front and back boards and spine, watered silk endpapers and metal clasp
9¼ x 7 3/8in. (23.5 x 18.8cm.)