Excerpt from British Moths, Vol. 1 of 2: And Their Transformations But the moths are infinitely more interesting to the collector on account of their numbers, in which they greatly exceed the butterflies, and which will oblige me in the present work frequently to give as many as twenty species upon a single plate a labour which I shall cheerfully undertake, in order to produce a. More complete, and at the same time more accessible work than has hitherto appeared upon the subject; for in order to make it equally popular and attainable by all classes, it will be published at the same low price as the butterflies, notwithstanding the great increase of labour and expense attendant upon its production. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.