(YONGE, Charlotte Mary) BRUYSSEL, Ernest Jean van. The Population of an old pear-tree; or, Stories of Insect Life. From the French of E. van Bruyssel. Ed. by the author of "The Heir of Redclyffe". With numerous illustrations by Becker. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Macmillan & Co. 1870
Half title, front., illus., final ad. leaf. Orig. green cloth, pictorially blocked and lettered in gilt. Gift inscription on leading f.e.p., 1870. a.e.g. A v.g. bright copy.
¶Not in Wolff. First published under the title Les Clients d'un vieux poirier, 1865. An attractive edition, with a front cover illustration of insects dancing within a spider's web border.