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The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.Wilkes, Benjamin

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The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.

Name: The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.
Author: Wilkes, Benjamin

Wilkes, Benjamin

Butterflies -- Great Britain

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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                                 THE

                    English Moths and Butterflies:

                           _Together with_

       _The_ Plants, Flowers, _and_ Fruits _whereon they_ Feed,
                       _and are_ usually Found.

All _Drawn_ and _Coloured_ in such a Manner, as to _represent_ their
                  several _beautiful Appearances_,

_Being copied exactly from the_ Subjects themselves, _and Painted on
                      the best_ Atlas _Paper_.

  Together with an Attempt towards a _Natural History_ of the said
                     _Moths_ and _Butterflies_.

            This work consists of one Hundred and Twenty
              Copper Plates, with a particular Account
     of the _Flies_ represented in the said Plates setting forth
      the true Times of their Appearance in the _Caterpillar_,
         _Chrysalis_, and _Fly_ State; the most ready Means
       of finding them; the Method of managing and preserving
           them; their Ways of feeding; the several Plants
         they feed on; and, in a Word, everything yet known
         relating to their _Natural History_. Together with
         the Names of the _Plants_, _Flowers_, _Fruits_ &c.


          _The Price of this Work colour’d is_ Nine Pounds;

 Which for the Conveniency of the Buyer is divided into four Parts,
     and each Part, or any single Number, may be had separately.

 _Uncoloured_ Three Pounds Thirteen Shillings _and_ Sixpence, or Two
                Shillings _and_ Sixpence each Number.

    _The Natural History by itself_ Ten Shillings _and_ Sixpence.

                               LONDON;

    PRINTED for, and Sold by _BENJAMIN WILKES_, the Proprietor,
                          in _Fleetstreet_.




                                  TO

                    MARTIN FOLKES, Esq; PRESIDENT,

                             _And to the_

                      COUNCIL and FELLOWS of the

                            ROYAL SOCIETY

                                  OF

                               LONDON.

GENTLEMEN,

I Humbly take the Liberty to address this Work to You, and presume
to hope, from Your exact Knowledge of the Subjects it contains, and
Your having been pleased to countenance the several Parts of it, as
they were published, with Your Acceptance and Approbation, that You
will not, now they are put together, deny them the Honour of Your
Patronage.

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The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.

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