British Butterflies. A Field Guide.

pp.144 with colour photos. and dist maps throughout. 8vo. From Eric Hosking’s library with reduced-size copy of his bookplate loosely inserted. Label to title page (with printed drawing by Gordon Benningfield) signed by Robert Goodden. Fine hardback in illustrated boards, very gently sunned on spine. Goodden worked with Gordon Beningfield in the production of ‘Beningfield’s Butterflies’. Eric Hosking was 'Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived' (Gemma Padley). He was part of the New Naturalist Editorial Board and attended their first meeting in January 1943 where he would take on the role as photographic editor.