760 species of Lepidoptera, painted between 1780 and 1800 by an amateur entomologist and wine merchant called William Jones, who worked from the collections of Joseph Banks, the Linnaean Society, Dru Drury et al, as well as his own. This beautiful facsimile is published in partnership with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History which holds the only manuscript copy (in six vols) of this astonishing work. It also contains contextual commentary, a brief biography of Jones’s life, notes on C18th butterfly collectors and taxonomy, etc. Over a thousand illustrations…