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Title(s):
The night-flyers : a series of moth pictures.
Published/Created:
London : Paul Jerrard & Son, 170 Fleet St., [ca. 1860?]
Physical Description:
[30] pages : hand-colored illustrations ; 27 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
QL543 .N544 1860+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14064433
Classification:
Books
Notes:
The general text is printed in pink. The text of headings, title page, presentation page, publisher's advertisements (p. [29]), and floral borders are printed in gold.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's caoutchouc binding, with gilt-stamped decoration on front cover; rebacked. The presentation page is inscribed: "Our dear mother, Mary Anne Cay, her affectionate children, William, Matthew, Robert & Mary Anne, December 25th, 1861."
Subject Terms:
Cay, Mary Anne -- Ownership.
Moths -- Pictorial works.
Natural history.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860.
Caoutchouc bindings (Binding)
Publisher's advertisements.
Gift books.
Contributors:
Paul Jerrard & Son, publisher.
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  • The deathshead moth
  • The ghost moth
  • The red under-wing
  • The tiger moth
  • The yellow under-wing
  • The night moth
  • The marsh moth
  • The peach-blossom moth
  • The puss moth
  • The eggar moth.

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