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Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets
'Jones' Icones' is a stunning six-volume manuscript containing
paintings of some of the most important butterfly and moth
collections at the end of the eighteenth century. It is the work of
William Jones (1745-1818), a wealthy wine merchant from Chelsea
who, on retirement, devoted the rest of his life to studying and
painting butterflies and moths. Held in the archives of the Oxford
University Museum of Natural History, the volumes contain over
1,500 ink and gouache paintings representing 760 species from
around the world. Work continues to this day to determine whether
all the original specimens depicted still survive. This set of
three A5, softback notebooks with high quality ruled paper makes an
exquisite gift for nature-lovers and writers alike.
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