The Hemiptera-Homoptera (Cicadina and Psyllina) of the British Islands

London: L Reeve & Co.,, 1896 A good copy of the larger illustrated edition of Edwards Hemiptera-Homoptera with 2 black and white and 28 colour plates. In contemporary half leather binding which is in very clean sound condition with small raised bands and gilt titles to spine. There is some scuffing and slight surface loss at the spine ends and at the corners and the spine is slightly faded (the fading also extends to the top 2 cms of leather on the front board). Page edges and endpapers marbled. There is a pasted extract from a catalogue entry for the work on the verso of the fep together with the ownership stamp of George West (there is a further stamp in the gutter on the plain side of the rear free endpaper). George West was a keen entomologist (although employed as a lecturer in Botany), and made an extensive pencil note to the initial blank about the work. He also made some scholarly pencil annotation - sometimes cross referencing to other works including Donovan's British Insects. The contents are complete and clean but with considerable foxing - particularly at the beginning (to page 17) and end of the work - including the final plates (spotting at the edges from plate 23 - plate 28 very spotty), which were bound after the text. There is a small tag at the page edge of the first index page which was presumably to allow easy access to the plates which follow. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.