British butterflies
Subtitle: figures and descriptions of every native species : with an account of butterfly development, structure, habits, localities, mode of capture and preservation
By: by W. S. Coleman ... ; with illustrations printed in colours by Edmund Evans.
Contributors: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Woodfall and Kinder
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1889
Place of publication: London; Glasgow; Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Butterflies -- Great Britain
Notes: Date based on publisher's imprint, printer's address and inscription in Massey Library copy.  Cf. Topp, Chester W.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. I, 1993 and Brown, Philip A. H. London publishers and printers, 1982.

"Coleman's British Butterflies. A cheap Edition of this Work, in boards, with plain Illustrations, is also published, price 1s."--Half-title verso.

Publisher's advertisement for titles "Uniform with this volume, with coloured illustrations." 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].

Plates I and II are printed in grey-green only.

All plates and illustrations within the text are unsigned.

With the same setting of type (except for changes to footnote on p. 53) and the same colour wood-engraved plates (but with the numbering printed on the bottom and  some differences in colour) as an 1860 edition and an 1863 "New Edition" of this title, both published by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge.  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.

With the same setting of type and the same colour wood-engraved plates (but with the numbering printed on the bottom and some differences in colour) as an edition of this title published in [1869?] by George Routledge & Sons.  See McLean D 0241.

Wood-engraved plates and illustrations within the text are the same as those used printed in black only in an edition of this title published by George Routledge and Sons in [1869?].  See McLean D 0242.

Includes "Index.": p. [178]-179.

Publisher's advertisments on p. [2-5] at end.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and black.  Upper cover blocked in gold with the same imagery as the illustration blocked in gold on the cover of McLean D 0241.  Lower cover blocked in black with publisher's monogram: "GR&SLD" [i.e. George Routledge and Sons Ltd.].  Spine with imprint: "Routledge".  Boards with bevelled edges.  With yellow glazed endpapers.  With prize inscription dated 1890: "Ardingly College  Natural History Society, Prize presented by the Masters to [...] Avenell for the best collection of specimens made during the holidays.".