LINSSEN, E.F. Beetles of the British Isles. Frederick Warne & Co. 1959.
8vo. 2 vols. Publisher's red gilt cloth, gilt spines, rounded corners, illustrated endpapers, with dustwrapper; pp. 300, 19 colour plates, 20 b&w plates, text illustrations; pp. 295, 44 colour plates, 43 b&w plates, text illustrations; wrappers price-clipped and somewhat chipped to extremities, very good.
First edition. One of the most sought-after titles in the series, partly for its comprehensiveness but also for its scarcity. It only ran to one edition: "…a well illustrated guide… Like most of the volumes on the less popular insect orders, Beetles of Great Britain is now scarce" (Peter Marren, The Observer's Book of Wayside and Woodland, 2003).
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