The Spiders And Allied Orders Of The British Isles.
£15.00
Publisher
Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd.
Place
London
Date
1953
Synopsis
Comprising descriptions of every family of british spiders, every species of harvestman and false scorpion. also the more familiar of the british mites and sea spiders. by theodore h. savory, m.a., f.z.s. with 63 figures in colour by florence m. brummitt. also 130 illustrations from drawings and photographs and 88 diagrams in the text. second edition reprinted. (the wayside and woodland series).
Item Description
8vo. 6.75 x 5 inches. 223 + [1] pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, front board with blind stamped border enclosing gilt block of spider. Colour speckled edges. Minor wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 95 plates in black and white and colour, including frontispiece and by 70 text figures. Pictorial endpapers. A volume in the well known Wayside and Woodland series appearing from Frederick Warne after 1895. First published in 1935, this is a reprint of the second edition of 1945. Includes appendix on nomenclature and a glossary. Theodore Horace Savory (1896-1980) was a linguist and arachnologist, author of The Biology of Spiders (1928) and Arachnida (1935).
[Stock No. 27926]
