Author's Limited Edition, of which only 1,000 numbered sets were issued.
216 Moths and Butterflies of the United States; East of the Rocky Mountains. By Sherman F. Denton. With over 400 photographic illustrations in the text, and many transfers of species from life. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. ¾ maroon levant morocco extra, emblematic gilt tooled backs, gilt tops, uncut. Boston, 1900. $35.00
The colored plates, or Nature Prints, used in this work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say, the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to the paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterward colored by hand. The making of such transfers is not original with the author, but it took a good deal of experimenting to so perfect process as to make the transfers, on account of their fidelity to detail and their durability, fit for use as illustrations in such a work. And what magnificent illustrations they are, embodying all the beauty and perfection of the specimens themselves!
Edition limited to only 500 numbered copies, privately bound in a handsome levant morocco binding.
217 Minor Poems. The Works of Celebrated Authors, of whose writings there are but small remains. 2 vols. 12mo. half polished calf, gilt tooled backs. London, 1750. $5.00
Contains the Works of the Earls of Roscommon, Dorset, and Hallifax; Sir Samuel Garth, George Stepney, William Walsh, Thomas Tickell, and Poems by Bishop Sprat.
From the library of John M. Dana, with his armorial book-plates.
218 New Nature Library. With 276 beautiful full-page illustrations in color, 416 full-page half-tones, and 5,120 pages of fascinating text. The books, each written by an authority, are Bird-Neighbors, Game Birds, Flowers, Trees, Butterflies, Moths, Insects, Fish, Animals. 9 vols., finely printed on fine super calendared paper, bound in new flexible full morocco, gilt stamped sides and backs, silk headbands. Sold only by subscription. Doubleday, Page & Co.
Subscription price, $44.50. $26.00
Latest and best edition of this sumptuous work, the 276 beautiful full-page colored plates being true to nature.