Descrizione

8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 62 coloured plates, 130 plates and illustrations in monochrome, 88 diagrams in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of coarse-grain terracotta leatherette, upper board framed in black and blocked and lettered in gilt and black, backstrip blocked in black and lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, radial corners, a near fine copy. Includes descriptions of every family of British spiders, every species of harvestman and false scorpion, and the more familiar of the British mites and sea-spiders. Colour plates by Florence M Brummitt. Enlarged and extended version of the original edition of 1935; the section on harvestmen is enlarged and the sea-spiders appear here for the first time. A lovely copy. See Marren, pp.166-167.