The Moths of the British Isles
SOUTH, Richard
First Series [with] Second Series. Edited and revised H.M. Edelsten and D.S. Fletcher. [Fourth Edition].
BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Warne, [1961]
Stock code: 28094
Price: £40.00
2 vols., 8vo., Fourth Edition, with coloured frontispieces, coloured and monochrome plates, photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of blue faux-morocco, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt backs, blue sprinkled edges, hinges tender (but bindings entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately rubbed at edges.
The set comprises: Vol. I: Families Sphingidae to Noctuidae; Vol. II: Families Noctuidae to Hepialidae. Bright set 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). Marren, pp.146-148.