Denny, Henry. - MONOGRAPHIA PSELAPHIDARUM ET SCYDMÆNIDARUM BRITANNIÆ: Or An Essay on the British Species of the Genera Pselaphus, of Herbst, and Scydmænus, of Latreille: In Which Those Genera are Subdivided, and all the Species Hitherto Discovered in Great Britain are Accurately Described and Arranged, with an Indication of the Situations in which They are Usually Found.

Norwich: Published by S. Wilkin, Uppper [sic] Haymarket ..., 1825. 1st Ed. vi + 74pp. With 2pp. of Subscribers. 14 hand coloured plates. Light browning, with pen inscription of Beverley Oberstraud?, rebound in C20th paper backed boards, minor soiling and wear with sl. fraying to head and tail of spine. ¶ Freeman 958. Exquisite illustrations ‘each species illustrated by a hugely magnified figure.’ Henry Denny (1803–1871), ‘... entomologist, was for forty-five years curator of the museum of the Literary and Philosophical Society in Leeds. Before his appointment he had published [the above work] His studies were to follow this direction for the rest of his life, and, while performing his duties as curator, he made himself a leading authority on the subject of parasitic insects. Denny was the first salaried curator of the Leeds museum, and was dedicated to the institution. The entomologist William Kirby [a subscriber to the above work] (1759–1850), to whom Denny dedicated his first monograph, tried unsuccessfully to secure for the latter employment as illustrator on a serial entomological publication ...’ ODNB.

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