The natural history of British butterflies. Illustrated by thirty-six plates; with memoir and portrait of Werner / By James Duncan, M.W.S.
A volume of James Duncan's British butterflies, issued in Edinburgh by W.H. Lizars in 1835 as part of a naturalists' series edited under Cuvier's name, written for amateur collectors and field observers. Thirty-six plates of engraved and coloured butterflies, larvae and dissected wing and leg details sit among close-set letterpress pages describing markings, food plants and county records, usable as insect silhouettes, anatomical spot art or period type texture.
