Category: F W Frohawk

1. A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES
F W FROHAWK , A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES , 1924, 2 vols, folio, with the Foreword, dated 1914, by Lord Rothschild who sponsored Frohawk for many years to undertake the production of the work, 4 plain and 60 colour plates, blue cloth binding in good condition, Hutchison & Co. The first book to illustrate fully and describe the life stages of all the British species; now the ‘classic’ twentieth century work on British lepidoptera with probably the finest paintings on this subject ever executed.
Stock No. 188
£325

2. VARIETIES OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES
F W FROHAWK, VARIETIES OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 1938, original first edtion, 199 pages including 48 colour plates, (illustrations include specimens of aberrations, gynandromorphs, albinism and melanism), good copy, Frohawk’s final book. The plates of the first edition printing were lost during the Second World War and a reprint issued later. Very few copies of the first edition exist. It is easily identified - on the frontispiece opposite the title-page under the figures of the Purple Emperor the caption word \\\"Ex\\\" appears at the end of the first line, but in the reprint the word is at the beginning of the second line. The plates are printed on better quality, less fibrous, paper and the weave of the cloth binding is coarser. Ward Lock & Co.
Stock No. 1134
£180

3. THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES
F W FROHAWK, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 1934, 8vo, 384 pages, 34 colour plates and 160 text illustrations, green cloth binding, A condensed but up-dated version of Frohawk’s main work, which stands as an accomplished book in its own right,. In addition to all the typical British species, many interesting and unusual varieties are illustrated. Ward Lock & Co.
Stock No. 349
£75

4. VARIETIES OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES
F W FROHAWK, VARIETIES OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 1938, reprint 1946, 199 pages including 48 colour plates, (illustrations include specimens of aberrations, gynandromorphs, albinism and melanism), good copy, Frohawk’s final book. The plates of the first printing were lost during the Second World War and the reprint issued just after WWII. Very few copies of the first edition exist. Ward Lock & Co.
Stock No. 350
£85

5. PALLAS FRITILLARY, Argynnis laodice
F W Frohawk, PALLAS FRITILLARY, Argynnis laodice, 1909, from the Entomolgist number 550, 6 text pages of the description of the life-cycle, beautifully printed colour plate by Frohawk depicting 12 figures of all stages of the life-cycle with sections drawn from the microscope 22 x 15 cm (in the style of his Natural History etc), in card folder with three pages of advertisements, West, Newman & Co
Stock No. 785
£15

6. F. W. FROHAWK - HIS LIFE AND WORK,
CHATFIELD J,, F. W. FROHAWK - HIS LIFE AND WORK, , 1987, 184 pages, a finely illustrated book including many reproductions of Frohawk’s paintings and drawings of birds, animals and butterflies, a fascinating insight into the life of a truly exceptional artist whose study and paintings of butterflies and their life-cycles are to this day unsurpassed, a good copy in dustwrapper, Crowood Press.
Stock No. 1135
£25