The colours of animals : their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects
A late nineteenth-century natural history study of insect coloration by the British zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton, published in New York by D. Appleton in 1890 for a scientific and general readership. Its pictures are plain pen-and-ink drawings of caterpillars posed on twigs in defensive attitudes, with crisp contour lines, light hatching on the bodies, and bare background, a clear model for designers seeking simple line-based creature studies.
