3 volumes, 8vo (203 x 127 mm). Hand-colored lithographed frontispieces, title-vignettes, head- and tail-pieces (very light spotting throughout.) Original blue-green pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, bound by Westleys with their binders' ticket (rubbing, small hole to spine of third volume, front hinges starting on all three volumes). Provenance: David S. Smith (ownership signature).

FIRST EDITION. Published under the pseudonym "Acheta Domestica" (the scientific name for "house cricket"), Episodes of Insect Life illustrates the full entomological year in the life of an insect, with the first volume representing the period from January-April, the second May-August, and the third the rest of the year. Nissen ZBI 662. See McClean, Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings, p.42.