British Butterflies. Figures and Descriptions of every Native Species,

Pp. 160 + 15 full page tissue-guarded colour plates + 2 plates single tone. (printed by Edmund Evans). Gilt decorated cloth, rubbing and loss to top and bottom of spine. William Stephen Coleman, book illustrator and painter, was born in Horsham in 1829. He studied to be a surgeon and turned to art after practicing for some time. He exhibited between 1865 and 1879 but painted through his whole life. He was a keen naturalist painting for the Illustrated News and the London Almanac. Until 1881 he was on the committee of the Dudley Gallery and he also designed tiles for Minton pottery.