A history of British butterflies
By: by the Rev. F. O. Morris ... ; with seventy-one coloured plates.
Contributors: Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, (printer)
Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
Published: 1865
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Butterflies -- Great Britain.; Butterflies -- Great Britain.
Other titles: Morris' British butterflies.
Notes: Text and plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett.  Cf. McLean, Ruari and Antonia. Originally published in 18 parts at 1s, 1 Jan. 1852 to 1853. See also McLean O 454. Cf. Benjamin Fawcett : engraver and colour printer, 1988.

The majority of plates are printed in black with the addition of hand-colouring.  Some hand-coloured plates are printed in black and light brown or grey-blue, brown and black, and a few include areas printed in green.  Plates [1-2] at end are printed in black without hand-colouring.  All plates are unsigned.

Shades of colouring and some colours in the hand-colouring of some plates differ from those in the 1853 edition.  Includes the addition of silver colouring in a few plates.

Includes "Aphorismata entomologica.": p. [1]-29 at end.

McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett : engraver and colour printer, p. 83-84.

MASS copy 1: Bound in teal-green morocco-grain cloth blocked in blind with the upper cover and spine blocked in gold, in the same design and with the same illustration as McLean O 454.  Lacking plates 50, 52 and 53.  Titling of accompanying text and description of plates 50 and 53 on p. 119 and 125 are cut out.  With presentation inscription dated 1870.