Author: FOUNTAINE, MARGARET
Title: Love Among the Butterflies the Secret Life of a Victorian Lady
Description: Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1984. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316289426. B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge nicks and tiny chips missing, along with one semi-closed tear to the top front panel. "Fountaine was an accomplished natural history illustrator and had a great love and knowledge of butterflies, travelling and collecting extensively through Europe, South Africa, India, Tibet, America, Australia and the West Indies, publishing numerous papers on her work. She raised many of the butterflies from eggs or caterpillars, producing specimens of great quality, 22,000 of which are housed at the Norwich Castle Museum and known as the Fountaine-Neimy Collection. Her four sketch books of butterfly life-cycles are held at the Natural History Museum in London. The butterfly genus Fountainea was named in her honour. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0316289426 Nature Margaret Fountaine Butterflies Lepidoptera Natural History


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