L'Aurelien, ou, Histoire naturelle des chenilles, chrysalides, phalenes et papillons anglois
Subtitle: avec les plantes dont ils se nourissent : et le detail exact de leurs differents changements, des endroits qu'ils frequentent dans l'etat ailé, et de leurs noms vulgaires ou scientifiques donnés et etablis par la Societé des aureliens anglois
By: dessiné gravé et colorié d'après les sujets vivants par Moise Harris
Publisher: Imprimé pour J. Edwards
Published: 1794
Place of publication: A Londres
Language: fre; eng
Translated from: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Moths; Butterflies
Other titles: Histoire naturelle des chenilles, chrysalides, phalenes et papillons anglois
Work titles: Aurelian, or, Natural history of English insects, namely moths and butterflies
Notes: Third edition; according to Lisney, there are two states of the third edition. The first has a French title-page and the second has had that title-page removed and an English title-page inserted in its place.

Signatures: [A]¹ B-Z² 2A-2P² 2Q¹.

"English and French texts ... have been printed on opposite sides of the leaves so that the English text precedes and the French follows each plate." Cf. A.A. Lisney, Bibl. of British lepidoptera, no. 234.

Engraved title page, hand-colored.

Lisney, A.A. Bibliography of British lepidoptera, 234-235

Second state, with original English title-page dated 1766 tipped in.

Written in an old hand at the foot of the elaborately colored title-page: Painted by J. Harris, son of the author.

In green straight-grained morocco, with gilt and stamped blind embossed panels, gilt spine and turn-ins; a.e.g.; in modern green cloth case.