British butterflies
Subtitle: figures and descriptions of every native species : with an account of butterfly development, structure, habits, localities, mode of capture and preservation, etc.
By: by W. S. Coleman ... ; illustrated by the author.
Contributors: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Yellowback books -- Specimens; Butterflies -- Great Britain
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: British butterflies :
Notes: Date based on English Catalogue of Books and advertisement for a "cheap Edition" on half-title verso of a cloth edition of this title published by George Routledge and Sons in [1869?].  See McLean D 0241.

Publisher's advertisement for "Books for the Country. Uniform with this volume." on t.p. verso.

"The whole of the illustrative portraits of the butterflies have been drawn from nature by the author, and with one exception from specimens in his own collection ... The greater number of the caterpillars and chrysalides, however, being rarely met with, the figures on the first plate are nearly all borrowed from the splendid and accurate works of Continental authors--chiefly from Hübner and Duponchel."--Preface, dated 1860.

All plates and illustrations within the text are unsigned.

Wood-engraved plates are the same (but with the numbering printed on the bottom) as those used printed in colours by Edmund Evans in an 1860 edition and an 1863 "New Edition" of this title, both published by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge.  Illustrations within the text are also the same as those used in these editions.  See McLean D 0238 and McLean D 0240.

Wood-engraved plates are the same (but with the numbering printed on the bottom) as those used printed in black only in an edition of this title published by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge in 1860.  Illustrations within the text are also the same as those used in this edition.  See McLean D 0239.

Wood-engraved plates are the same (but with the numbering printed on the bottom) as those used printed in colours by Edmund Evans in an edition of this title published in [1869?] by George Routledge & Sons.  Illustrations within the text are also the same as those used in this edition.  See McLean D 0241.

Wood-engraved plates are the same as those used printed in colours by Edmund Evans in an edition of this title published in [1889] by George Routledge & Sons.  Illustrations within the text are also the same as those used in this edition.  See McLean D 0243.

"One Shilling"--Cover.

MASS copy: Bound in pale yellow paper-covered boards printed in black, dark green, light green and red in the same design (except for publisher's statement) and with the same illustration as that used on McLean D 0239.  Upper cover printed with wood-engraved titling and illustrations similar to those within the text.  Lower cover printed in dark green with publisher's advertisements.  All sides of upper and lower endpapers printed with publisher's advertisements.  With ownership inscription dated 1880: "James J Ellis".