I have here for sale a book entitled FABRE'S BOOK OF INSECTS Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" by Mrs Rodolph Stawell.  First edition published by Hodder and Stoughton London in 1921.  There are 10 of 12 loose tipped-in colour plates by E J Detmold (Sisyphus and Anthrax Fevestrata are missing).   The book covers the sacred beetle, cicada, praying mantis, glow-worm, mason-wasp, the psyches, Spanish copris, grasshoppers, common wasps, grub, cricket, sisyphus, capricorn, locust and anthrax fly.

Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects.  His Souvenirs Entomologiques is a series of texts on insects and arachnids. He influenced the later writings of Charles Darwin, who called Fabre "an inimitable observer".

Original cream cloth hardboards with gilt decorative border, a gilt illustration of an insect and the title lettering sitting within a gilt block to the top of the front board.  Blind embossed insect to the rear board.  Gilt insect and lettering to the spine.  Bumping to head and tail.  Small split in the cloth to the base of the front joint.  Small inscription to front endpaper.  Foxing to prelims, title page, the border of a couple of the plates and last couple of pages.  All others clean.  Some plates have tissue guards still, some don't.  184 pages + 10 plates.  28 x 22 cm.

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