Colored Plates of the Butterflies of the West Coast Being Actual Photographs, Life- Size, and in All Their Natural Colors

San Bernardino: Printed for the Author, 1907. First edition thus. Black stamped maroon cloth. A very good+ copy, faint spotting to the boards, hint of browning, otherwise quite clean and bright.. Port. frontis, [1], Plates [23], Index [2]. Illus. with color plates. Sm. 4to. The original edition of the larger work was first published in 1905, most copies then lost in a fire, followed by another edition the following year; this volume contains the complete plates, but not the text, other than the names of the specimens, and is Wright's advertisement for the large work.