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 ... ; the illustrations printed in colours by Edmund Evans.
Contributors: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Woodfall and Kinder
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Butterflies -- Great Britain
Other titles: Common British butterflies :
Notes: Date based on English Catalogue of Books.

"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 "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.

Plates I and II are printed in brown only.

All plates and illustrations within the text are unsigned.

With the same setting of type and the same colour wood-engraved plates (with 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 and illustrations within the text are the same as those used printed in black only in an edition of this title published by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge in 1860.  See McLean D 0239.

Wood-engraved plates are the same (but with the numbering printed on the top) as those used printed in black only in an edition of this title published by George Routledge and Sons.  Illustrations within the text are also the same as those used in this edition.  See McLean D 0242.

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 top and some differences in colour) as an edition of this title published in [1889] by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean D 0243.

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

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

MASS copy: Bound in purple calico cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with an illustration of a butterfly among flowers.  This imagery was also used on the cover of McLean D 0243.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With ownership label: "O. W. Tancock, M. A.  School House, Norwich.".