Author: Jean-Henri Fabre; Alexander Teixeira del Mattos; Rodolph Stawell
Title: Fabre&Apos;S Book of Insects
Description: New York, Tudor Publishing Company, 1936. Cloth. Rodolph Stawell's retelling of Fabre's 'Book of Insects' with illustrations by EJ Detmold. A retelling of Jean-Henri Fabre's 'Souvenirs entomologiques' English translation of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Dutch-English journalist, literary critic and publisher, who gained his greatest fame as a translator. Here retold by Mrs Rodolph Stawell. The fifth printing of this work.A fascinating collection of essays detailing Fabre's observations of all kinds of insects in his homeland of France combined with folklore, storytelling, and cultural reference. Jean-Henri Fabre was a French naturalist, entomologist and author known for his popular books on the lives of insects.This edition illustrated by Victorian illustrator E. J. Detmold with coloured frontispiece and eleven further full page plates in colour. Collated, complete. Complete with price clipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper with wear to extremities, minor loss to head and tail of spine and rear wrap. Previous ownership pencil inscription to front free endpaper dated 1937. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge affecting only occasional leaf lightly, pages otherwise generally very clean throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: EJ Detmold. Very Good Indeed/Good.

Keywords: book of insects j henri fabre illustrated j henri fabre EJ Detmold


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