1909-1941 vii, 88, xxii, 116, xiii, 69, 66 p., 32, 68, 29, 21 pls, frontispiece, publisher's cloth. Verso front cover with library stamp or bookplate / Ex libris, small label with number on spines, 3 parts with small unobtrusive blind stamp in lower corner of title-page, else good copies.Originally six parts were published. This set lacks the Geometridae (1914) and the Tortricidae (1922). The first part is by Pierce alone, the second and third part (of our set) is by Pierce and Metcalfe, and the last part is by Pierce and Beirne. Some of the original parts (there was a reprint edition in the sixties/seventies) are quite scarce now.
1909-1941 vii, 88, xxix, 88, xxii, 116, xiii, 69, 66 p., 32, 48, 68, 29, 21 plates, frontispiece, publisher's cloth. Last part with spine discoloured and with some wear. Library stamps, else a good set of the original edition.Originally six parts were published. This set lacks the Tortricidae (1922). The first two parts are by Pierce alone, the second and third part (of our set) is by Pierce and Metcalfe, and the last part is by Pierce and Beirne. Some of the original parts (there was a reprint edition in the sixties/seventies) are quite scarce now.