A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation

8vo. 640 pages. Purple pebbled cloth boards with bevelled edges; gilt illustrations of a moth on front and rear boards; gilt titles and illustration of a beetle on spine. Edges of text block stained red. Coloured endpapers. 8 colour plates (including frontispiece) with tissue guards; numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Boards lightly edgeworn; with a few small spots and marks; spine faded; ends of spine fraying, especially at tail. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper and flyleaf. Some offsetting from plates to tissue guards and adjacent pages; otherwise pages clean. Binding firm.