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The Moths of the British Isles

SOUTH, Richard

First Series [with] Second Series. Edited and revised by H.M. Edelstein. [Wayside & Woodland Series. Revised and Best Edition].

BRIGHT, CRISP SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Published: Warne, [1948]

Stock code: 47787

Price: £48.00

The set comprises: Vol. I: Families Sphingidae to Agrotidae; Vol. II: Families Agrotidae to Hepialidae. Nice set of the revised [and best] edition of one of the most successful of all W&W titles. ''South' remained the standard work on British moths until 1984 - an extraordinary reign of nearly eighty years' (Marren). See Marren, pp.146-148.