Beautiful Butterflies Colouring Book - Arcturus Classic Nature Colouring 1. utgave

A delightful colouring-in book for anyone with a love of butterflies. The perfect gift for natural history-lovers and budding artists alike, 45 colour reference images are shown alongside clear line drawings ready for the addition of colour. Each plate is numbered and there is a key for species identification. The exquisite colour reference illustrations are from The Naturalist's Library, a hugely popular Victorian series edited by the Scottish naturalist, Sir William Jardine (1800-1874).

Author Biography: Peter Gray is long established as an illustrator of books, magazines and newspapers with occasional forays into such fields as film storyboards and costume design, advertising and animation projects. Peter is also the author of many books for adults and children, which have been published in many languages all around the world. Since graduating from Loughborough College of Art and Design with a specialist degree in illustration, Peter Gray has contributed illustrations to many books, of wide-ranging subject matter, from classic fiction to educational and historical, for UK publishers Penguin Longman and Oxford University Press and Ernst Klett in Germany. Outside book publishing, Peter has worked on storyboards and costume design for the film industry, most recently on Oliver Stone's blockbuster Alexander, and regularly contributes illustrations to national newspapers (Financial Times, Sunday Times) and magazines (The Spectator, Readers' Digest).