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 (rubbing, front hinges partially separated on second and third series volumes, upper portion of spine partially detached on third series volume).

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.

[With]: [WOOD, John George (1827-1889), editor]. BUDGEN. Episodes of Insect Life. London: George Bell & Sons, 1879. Contemporary full morocco (rubbing, sunning to spine).