Close-up view of the title page color illustration of two butterflies and a skink.

View of the marbled endpapers and edges of the book.

Color illustration of two Charaxes Jasius butterflies and caterpillar.

View of the marbled fore-edge of the book.

Marbling and metamorphosis! #Caterpillars becoming #butterflies = easier to see in #illustratedbooks 🦋 -Sir William Jardine, The Naturalist's Library, 1800.
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