Insect Life.

Fabre (J.H.)

Insect Life.

Translated from the French by the author of 'Mademoiselle Mori' [i.e., Margaret Roberts]. With a Preface by David Sharp and Edited by F. Merrifield, with Illustrations by M. Prendergast Parker.

Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, frontispiece and 15 plates, pp. xii, 320, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip and upper board letered in gilt, both with gilt-stamped pictorial designs, the backstrip darkened, light rubbing to extremities, a.e.g., endpapers spotted, very good

Publication Details: Macmillan, 1901

Notes: Inscribed on the flyleaf: 'To Chid, Jan 22/1902, from RB Cunninghame Graham', with his device drawn beneath - the recipient was his wife, Gabriela, who claimed to be the child of a French nobleman, who had been taken to Chile to live with an aunt and attend convent school following her parents' death, but was in fact Caroline Horsfall from North Yorkshire. The facts of her origin only became generally known in the 1980s - and the circumstances of the fabrication remain a matter of intrigue and speculation, likewise the degree to which her husband was aware.A selection from Fabre's extensive e...moreInscribed on the flyleaf: 'To Chid, Jan 22/1902, from RB Cunninghame Graham', with his device drawn beneath - the recipient was his wife, Gabriela, who claimed to be the child of a French nobleman, who had been taken to Chile to live with an aunt and attend convent school following her parents' death, but was in fact Caroline Horsfall from North Yorkshire. The facts of her origin only became generally known in the 1980s - and the circumstances of the fabrication remain a matter of intrigue and speculation, likewise the degree to which her husband was aware.A selection from Fabre's extensive entomological writings, to introduce him to English readers. HIDE

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Price: £375

Subject: Sciences

Published Date: 1901

Stock Number: 76126

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