Category Archives: General Stuff

I am seriously down-sizing my library. I managed to clear about 90% of the books I took to the 2025 AES Annual Exhibition. Here are a few left-overs that were not snapped up.

Please email me at bugmanjones@hotmail.com and I will calculate postage and send an invoice. I have given weights so you can get a feel for the level of postage that might be required.

Arnett, R.H. Jr. 1993. American insects. A handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico. Gainsville: Sandhill Crane Press. 850 pp, 280 x 215 mm. Many b/w illustrations. top corner very slightly bumped. Soft cover. Good condition. 2000 g. £20

Emmet, A.M. & Heath, J. eds. 1991. The moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 7, Part 2, Lasiocampidae — Thyatiridae, with a life history chart of the British Lepidoptera. Colchester: Harley Books. 398 pp, 4 colour plates. 260 x 210 mm. Original cloth, very good condition with dust jacket. 1510 g. £15.

Fiedler, K. 1940. Monograph of the South American weevils of the genus Conotrachelus. London: Trustees of the British Museum. 366 pp, 255 x 160 mm. Original cloth. Previous owner’s book plate and signature. 900 g. £10

Goater, B. 1986. British pyralid moths. A guide to their identification. Colchester: Harley Books. 176 pp, 220 x 155 mm. colour frontis and 8 colour plates, several b/w illustrations. Original cloth, with dust jacket. Good condition. £10

Heie, O.E. 1980, 1982, 1986. The Aphidoidea (Hemiptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. parts 1, 2 and 3. Fauna Entomological Scandinavica volumes 9, 11 and 17. 236, 176 and 314 pp, 210 x 145 mm. many b/w illustrations and 8 colour plates. Previous owner’s bookplate, otherwise good condition. Volumes 1 and 2 are in soft covers, volume 3 is hardback. 1230 g. 3 vols £30

Holloway, J.D., Bradley, J.D., Carter, D.J. & Betts, C.R. 1987. CIE guides to insects of importance to man. 1. Lepidoptera. London: CABI, BMNH. Soft cover, spiral bound. 262 pp, 265x195mm. Many b/w illustrations. good condition. 750g. £5

Kieffer, J.-J. 1879? Species des hyménoptères d’Europe & d’Algérie. Volume 7. Cynipidae. Paris: Froment. Pages 289-748, 250×165 mm, b/w engraved plates X-XXI. Disbound. Contents holding together but front cover completely off, and back cover and spine loose and broken. This is only half the volume 7, which much must have been originally bound up in two parts. 1350g. £10

Kasparyan, D.R. 1989. Fauna of the USSR. Hymenoptera. Volume 3, number 1. Ichneumonidae (Subfamily Tryphoninae) Tribe Tryphonini. Leiden: Brill. 414 pp, 240 x 160 mm. Many b/w illustrations. Original cloth. Good condition. 850 g. £10.

Locket, G.H. & Millidge, A.F. (and Merrett, P.) 1951, 1953, 1974. British spiders. 3 volumes. London: Ray Society. 310, 450 and 314 pp, 220 x 140 mm. Many b/w illustrations. Original black cloth. Volume 3 with dust jacket. Volumes 1 and 2 with some small museum library stamps on fly leaves and title pages. Volume 3 very good condition. 1750 g. 3 vols SOLD.

Matthews, E.G. 1980-1992. A guide to the genera of beetles of South Australia. Parts 1-6 (of 8 published). 66, 64, 60, 68, 68 and 76 pp, 250 x 175 mm, many b’w illustrations. softbacks. previous owner’s bookplates. Good condition. 1300 g. 6 parts £15.

Michener, C.D., McGinley, R.J. & Danforth, B.N. 1994. The bee genera of North and Central America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 201 pp. 285 x 220 mm. Many b/w illustrations. Original cloth. Very good condition with dust jacket. 1115 g. SOLD.

Mosely, M.E. 1939. The British caddis flies (Trichoptera). A collector’s handbook. London: Routledge. 320 pp, 250 x 160 mm. Many b/w illustrations. Original cloth, some marking and scuffing. An ex library copy, but apart from the usual stamps on fly leaf and tear where the lending card pocket has been roughly removed, the contents are good and clean. Library shelf number on the spine has been removed leaving a scuff mark. 900 g. £10

Palm, T. 1948, 1961, 1968, 1970, 1972. Svensk insektfauna utgiven av Entomologiska Foreningen i Stockholm. 9. Skalbaggar, Coleoptera, Kortvingar: Fam. Staphylinnidae. Parts 1 (Micropeplinae, Phloeocharinae, Olisthaerinae, Proteininae, Omalinae), 2 (Oxytelinae, Oxyporinae, Steninae, Euaesthetinae), 5 (Aleocharinae Deinopsis – Trichomicra), 6 (Aleocharinae – Atheta) and 7 (Aleocharinae Aleunota – Tinotus). Stockholm: Entomologiska Foreningen. 134pp, 126pp, 468pp (last three parts consecutively numbered), 205x145mm (parts 1&2), 215×145 (parts 5, 6, 7). Original card wrappers. Many b/w illustrations including 21 and 7 whole-page plates of aedeagus pictures. Book plates and signatures of previous owner. Otherwise very good condition. 1100 g. 5 parts £25.

Pierre, C. 1924. Faune de France, 8, Dipteres, Tipulidae. Paris: Lechevalier. 160 pp 245 x 160 mm. numerous b/w illustrations. Hardback. Good quality library style binding incorporating the original soft paper wrappers. Some stamps and stickers inside covers, otherwise good condition. 530 g. £10

Plant, C.W. 2008. The moths of Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire Natural History Society. 542 pp, 300 x 210 mm, Numerous colour illustrations and many 2-colour maps. Original hardcover. Good condition. 2400 g. £15

Salmon, M.A. 2000. The aurelian legacy. British butterflies and their collectors. Colchester: Harley Books. 432 pp. 280 x 210 mm. Many colour and b/w illustrations. Very good condition, with dust jacket. 1700 g. £10.

Spradbury, J.P. 1973. Wasps. An account of the biology and natural history of solitary and social wasps with particular reference to those of the British Isles. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 408pp. 240x160mm. Many b/w (and a few colour) illustrations. Original cloth slightly faded, contents good. 1200g. SOLD.

I’ve got the following stereomicroscopes for sale. All pretty well used over the years, but all in useful workable condition. I mainly had them for workshops and group activities, but they are now all surplus to requirements. All would suit someone new to entomology looking to get a cheap first scope. Buyer to collect from south-east London. Please email me at bugmanjones@hotmail.com if interested to come and see any of them.

Meji SKC-1. Swivel turret scope on simple base. 10x eyepieces. x1 and x3 objectives giving x10 and x30 magnifications. Stands 26 cm high. £45

Wessex WSP4. Swivel turret scope on light-projecting base. 10x eyepieces. x1 and x3 objectives giving x10 and x30 magnifications. Stands 32 cm high. Built in lights — objective above and transmission below. £55

Meji SKT. Swivel turret scope on light-projecting base. 10x eyepieces. x1 and x3 objectives giving x10 and x30 magnifications. Stands 30 cm high. Built in transmission light from below and objective light from above. The ratchet keeping the focussing handle stiff and in place is stuck so the only way to focus it at the moment is to raise and lower the entire head. Might be repairable. £35

Wessex WZ zoom. x10 eyepieces, zoom x1 – x 4 giving x10 to x40 life size zoom. Built in flourescent light on angled adjustable arms powered by separate power supply box. Stands 37 cm high. Comes on very heavy solid metal base26cm x 20cm. £150

XTL-101 zoom. x10 eyepieces, zoom 0.7 – 4.5 giving x0.7 to x45 life size magnifications. Has built-in transmission and objective lights, but I no longer have the power adaptor to fit it. I used it with an external angle-poise light whenever I needed and it was fine. Stands 40 cm high. Has extra objective stalk for attaching a camera, although I have never used this. The ratchet for keeping the focussing knob still and stiff is loose, so if you let go of it the head drifts out of focus. Might be fixable. £150.

I am seriously down-sizing my library.

I shall be taking a stand at this year’s Amateur Entomologists’ Society Annual Exhibition at Kempton Park, Saturday 27 September 2025, where I will be selling off a large number of titles at real knock-down prices.

But there are several things which are too bulky and perhaps a bit too specialist/ technical, so I have prepared the following list.

Many have my signature and bookplate inside the front covers. Other details are given in the descriptions.

Please email me on bugmanjones@hotmail.com and I will respond, on a first-come-first-served basis, with an invoice which will include the additional costs of postage and packing. Several large heavy items might be easier collected from south-east London and I am happy to try and accommodate this.

Ambrose, D.P. 1999. Assassin bugs. New Hampshire: Science Publishers. 228 pp. 240 x 155. 4 colour plates and several b/w photos and diagrams. Pictorial hardcover. Good condition. SOLD

Arnett, R.H. Jr. 1993. American insects. A handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico. Gainesville: Sandhill Crane Press. 850 pp. 280 x 215 mm. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Soft card covers. Good condition. £35.

Balachowsky, A.  & Mesnil, L. 1935. Les insectes nuisibles aux plantes cultivees. Paris. Two volumes, bound as three: Vol 1 chapters 1 & 2 736pp, Vol 1 chapter 3 pp 737-1140, Vol 2 pp 1141-1924. 270 x 210 mm. Illustrated throughout with b/w photos and drawings, and 7 colour plates. Rebound in rexine using original cloth labels, good condition. 3 large volumes £55.

Chenu, Dr. 1860. Encyclopedie d’histoire naturelle. Coleopteres. 3 volumes, bound in two. 312 pp + 312 pp, 290 x 190 mm, bound together. 360 pp, 290 x 190 pp. Many line illustrations throughout and many full-page plates. Modern (1950s?) cloth binding, some spotting to paper, otherwise pretty good condition. Two large volumes SOLD

Cherepanov, A.I. 1990-1991. Cerambycidae of Northern Asia. Leiden: Brill. 642pp, 292pp, 354pp, 300pp, 308pp, 396pp. 240 x 155 mm. Very many line drawings and illustrations throughout. All very good condition, original cream hardbacks, all with dust wrappers. Spines of dust wrappers slightly sun-faded, otherwise very good condition. Six volumes £180.

Chvala, M., Lyneborg, L.  & Moucha, J. 1972. The horse flies of Europe. Copenhagen: Entomological Society of Copenhagen. 500 pp. 5 colour and 3 b/w plates. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Cloth hardcover, slightly scuffed in one corner of front cover. Contents good condition. SOLD

Cole, F.R. 1969. The flies of western North America. Berkeley: University of California Press. 692 pp. 290 x 220 mm. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Cloth binding slightly pulled inside. Front fly leaf torn out. Otherwise good condition. Contains carbon copy of letter from Charles P. Alexander, thanking the author for the book. £12

Coleopterists Bulletin. Published by the Coleopterists Society (USA). 1990–2002. Volumes 44–56. Original card wrappers, 4 parts per volume. Approximately 500 pp per volume. 230 x 152 mm. Illustrated throughout with b/w figures. Also included matching Coleopterists Society Monograph 1, 2002, 96 pp. Good condition. The lot, 13 volumes, 52 + 1 = 53 parts. SOLD

Collin, J.E. 1961. British flies. Vol. VI. Empididae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  782 pp. 255 x 160 mm. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Good condition. SOLD

Danforth, B.N., Minckley, R.L. & Neff, J.L. 2019. The solitary bees — biology, evolution, conservation. Printon: Princeton University Press. 472 pp. 260 x 185 mm. 16 colour plates, numerous line drawings and graphs. Hardback with dustjacket. Very good Condition. SOLD

Disney, R.H.L. 1994. Scuttle flies: the Phoridae. London: Chapman & Hall. 468 pp. 240 x 160 mm. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial hard covers. Good condition. SOLD

Downie, N.M. & Arnett, R.H. 1996. The beetles of Northeastern North America. Gainsville: Sandhill Crane Press. 1722 pp. 260 x 185 mm. Numerous b/w illustrations. Original hardbacks with dust jackets. Volume 1 very good condition. Volume two with some page wrinkling caused by water damage in the past, although no pages are torn or decayed, the paper is still clean and bright, and all text is clear. Two volumes. SOLD

Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variation. 1964–2006. Volumes 76–118. A mixed set. Volumes 76–83 nicely bound, hardback in cloth and marbled paper, though spines all blank. Volumes 84–94 loose original parts in card wrappers. Volumes 95 and 96 nicely bound in cloth and marbled paper but spines blank. Volumes 97–118 loose original parts in card wrappers. All in pretty good condition. 43 volumes, the lot SOLD

Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine. A very mixed run. Not complete. 1867–1984 as follows:Volumes 4-6, 7-9, 13-15, bound three per volume. Half leather binding worn and crumbling.

Volumes 10-11. bound together. Half leather binding, rubbed.

Volumes 28–29, bound together modern cloth binding.

Volumes 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, single volumes in publisher’s cloth bindings, good

Volume 34, single volume, cloth binding, non-matching

Volumes 35-38, single volumes in publisher’s cloth bindings, good

Volumes 39-40. Bound together, half leather, worn, front cover detatched

Volumes 41, 42, 43, 45. Single volumes, half leather, rubbed

Volume 49, modern cloth binding

Volumes 82-87, loose, original parts in paper wrappers

Volumes 88-114, more or less matching modern cloth bindings, all good condition, bound two volumes together, except volume 100 on its own

Volumes 115-120, parts sewn together intended as three volumes, but not bound up with cloth covers

Cumulative indexes parts 1 and 2 (1983) bound together in modern cloth binding, good

The lot, 69 volumes. SOLD

Goulet, H. & Huber, J.T. 1993. Hymenoptera of the world. An identification guide to families. Ottowa: Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research. 668 pp. 280 x 215 mm. Many b/w line illustrations throughout. Soft card covers. Slight tear near bottom of front cover. Otherwise good condition. SOLD

Grimaldi, D. & Engel, M.S. 2005. Evolution of the insects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 756 pp. 300 x 235 mm. Illustrated throughout with colour and b/w photos, drawings etc. Original dust jacket. Very good condition. Another huge one as big as a paving stone. SOLD

Hatch, M.H. 1953-1971. The beetles of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 340pp, 384 pp, 503 pp, 268 pp, 662 pp. 255 x 175 mm. Numerous b/w plates. Volume 1 original soft card covers, good condition. Volumes 2 to 5 with cloth hard covers, not quite matching colours. Volumes 3 and 4 with some slight page wrinkling at top out corners, caused by minor water damage. Volume 5 good condition, inscribed by the author to Eric Classey 1972. 5 volumes SOLD

Holldobler, B & Wilson, E.O. 1990. The ants. Berlin: Springer. 732 pp. 310 x 260 mm. Illustrated throughout with b/w photos and illustrations. 24 colour plates. Title page missing, otherwise very good condition. This one’s as big as a paving stone. Heavy too. £50.

Howard, L.O. 1930. A history of applied entomology (somewhat anecdotal). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 84 (whole volume). Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 564 pp. 51 b/w plates of portraits. 240 x 160 mm. Some discreet library stamps (including to bottom edge of book). Original hardback binding. Good condition. £25.

James, T.J. 2018. Beetles of Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire Natural History Society. 494 pp. 300 x 210 mm. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, and maps. Original pictorial hard cover. Very good condition. SOLD

Kasparyan, D.R. 1989. Fauna of the USSR Hymenoptera. Volume 3, Number 1. Ichneumonidae (subfamily Tryphoninae) Tribe Tryphonini. Leiden: Brill. 414 pp. 240 x 160 mm. Hardback. Good condition. £25.

Klausnitzer, B. 1991, 1994. Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Larven. Krefeld: Goeke & Evers. Two volumes L1 and L2. 274pp, 326pp. 240 x 164 mm. Very many line figures throughout. Original green cloth hardbacks. Both very good condition. Two volumes SOLD

Koch, K. 1989-1994. Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Ökologie. Krefeld: Goeke & Evers. Five volumes E1 to E5, 440pp, 382pp, 390pp, 384pp, 300pp. 240 x 165 mm. Original green cloth hardbacks. All very good condition. Five volumes £80. 

Marshall, S.A. 2012. Flies: The natural history and diversity of Diptera. Firefly Books. 614 pp. 290 x 220 mm. Fully illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Dust jacket. Front cover bumped along edge, with small tear in dust jacket. Title page razored out. Otherwise good condition. A huge block of a book. SOLD

Medvedev, G.S. (editor) 1988. Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Volume 3, Hymenoptera, Part 2. Leiden: Brill. 1342 pp. 240 x 165 mm. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Hardback, with dust jacket. Good condition, but spine of dust jacket slightly sun faded. This volume covers Bethyloidea, Chalcidoidea, Proctotrupoidea and Ceraphronoidea. £35. 

Medvedev, G.S. (editor). 1995. Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Volume 3, Hymenoptera, Part 4. New Delhi: Science Publishers Inc. 884 pp. 245 x 160 mm. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Hardback. Cloth cover slightly worn. This volume covers Braconidae. £25.

Medvedev, G.S. (editor). 1995. Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Volume 3, Hymenoptera, Part 5. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing. 508 pp. 245 x 160 mm. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Cloth binding, slightly rubbed. Contents good condition. This volume covers some Braconidae and the Aphidiidae. SOLD

Nikol’skaya, M.N. 1963. The chalcid fauna of the USSR (Chalcidoidea). Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Keys to the fauna of the USSR. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations. 594 pp. 245 x 170 mm. Numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Hardback. Cloth binding. Good condition. SOLD

Plant, C.W. 2008. The moths of Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire Natural History Society. 542 pp. 305 x 215 mm. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs and maps. Pictorial Hardback. Very good condition, although top of spine very slightly sun faded. £12

Proceedings of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society. A run from 1919/20 to 1967 when it became the British Entomological and Natural History Society, then continuing to 1987. Nearly complete, but lacking 1921/22, 1941/42, 1943/43 (part 1), 1965 (part 4). The lot £20. 

Roberts, M.J. 1993. The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Compact Edition. Colchester: Harley Books. Two volumes. 204 (+16) pp, 256 pp. 290 x210 mm. Soft covers. Volume 1 is text, with many b/w illustrations and a few colour plates. Volume 2 is the colour plates. Very good condition. Two volumes together SOLD

Simmons, L.W. & Ridsdill-Smith, T.J. (editors) 2011. Ecology and evolution of dung beetles. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 346 pp. Numerous b/w illustrations and charts. 255 x 180 mm. Original pictorial cloth hardcover. A few discreet pencil annotations in the margins, otherwise very good condition. SOLD

Stork, N.E. (editor) 1990. The role of ground beetles in ecological and environmental studies. Andover: Intercept. 424 pp. 240 x 160 mm. Numerous line drawings and charts. Original hardback. Good condition. SOLD

Transactions of the Society for British Entomology. 1934-1948. Volume 1 parts 1 and 2, Volume 2 parts 1 and 2, Volume 3, Volume 4 parts 1 and 2, Volume 5 part 1. 220 x 140 mm. Original paper wrappers. Good condition. Eight parts £25.

Zimmerman, E.C. 1991-1994. Australian weevils. Melbourne: CRIRO. Volumes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 out of an 8-volume series. 740 pp, 756 pp, 854 pp, 634 pp, 708 pp. Many b/w drawings and photos throughout, except volumes 5 and 6 which are the coloured plates volumes. 260 x 180 mm. Hardbacks. Very good condition. Five volumes £150.

This is the MI6 building at Albert Embankment, Vauxhall. When I worked for a medical publisher in nearby Bondway during the mid-1980s there was a bus-stop here from which I caught the number 36 routemaster back home to Peckham each evening. There was no ziggurat-style stone and green glass building then — just a chain link fence and an overgrown derelict site.

From the bus-stop you could look a good 10 metres down into a mass of bramble, buddleja, and wild flowers growing up from the bulldozed piles of crushed brick, broken rubble and twisted metal.

One warm summer evening as I peered through the wire, down into the deep wilderness I saw someone walking through the waist-high herbage with an insect net. I couldn’t imagine how they got in there, or what they were doing. I was too far away to hail them over the traffic noise and my bus arrived shortly after.

At the time it struck me as odd that any entomologist would waste their time in such an ugly and unprepossessing place. What on Earth could be worth finding there?

Nearly forty years on and it is now obvious that they were doing exactly what I do in equally grim and dangerous places — an invertebrate survey as part of the environmental impact assessment required by law for any major construction project. And they will have found wonders.

This is now my favourite type of site — floristically diverse, well-drained, warm, dry and sparsely vegetated with plenty of areas of bare ground. And although this is not a ‘natural’ habitat the insects that turn up are those that occur on very similar well-drained, warm, dry and sparsely vegetated sites like chalk downs, heathlands, coastal cliffs and undercliffs, and sand-dune systems. And these are often warmth-loving insects with a more Mediterranean distribution, right on the very northern and western edge of their European distributions. And often very scarce here.

No brownfield site ever fails to supply me with a ready list of red data book and nationally scarce species. I wonder what that entomologist found back in the 1980s. And I wonder whether his survey is available. Or whether it’s a classified document for MI6 eyes only.

There is no mistaking the inky blue-black domed form of Timarcha tenebricosa — the bloody nose beetle. I let out a little squeal of joy when the 17-year-old bent down and scooped this up from the grass at the edge of the track through Chysauster Ancient Village, Cornwall, a couple of days ago.

This is an insect from my childhood, and no walk over the Sussex South Downs (literally out the door and up the hill) was complete unless we’d found one of them bumbling through the herbage. Occasionally we’d find the equally inky blue-black and slightly oily-looking larvae feeding on goose grass or bedstraw, and more than once we took some home to rear through to adulthood.

The first time I picked one up, slightly roughly as a 6-year-old I guess, it exuded so much red liquor that I half thought it was my own blood, and that the beast had bitten me. That startle factor may well have been part of its defensive ploy — together with the bitter taste, which I did not try until much later in my life.

So much part of our lives were these insects that one even featured in the bedtime stories my Dad told us; along with Willie Stag Beetle, his wife Agatha, and Leggyleg the centipede, Ermintrude Squiggle was often called upon to write some secret message using her own bright red blood. Yes, I know that sounds rather gothic now, but these were just everyday tales of insect folk, for us, back in the day.

We were very gentle with Mr Squiggle (large broad front feet = male) at Chysauster and no haemolymph was spilled or secreted. After much admiration and some publicity stills he was sent waddling his clockwork way off through the flowery sward.

In 1962 the world’s postal services (not the UK’s Royal Mail though!) supported the United Nations ‘World United Against Malaria‘ campaign — a concerted effort to focus attention and funds onto a disease killing half a million people a year in some of the world’s poorest countries. Stamp producers came back with a wealth of eye-catching designs.

Italy’s showed lauded malaria researcher Giovanni Battista Grassi, who along with Britain’s Ronald Ross isolated the blood parasite from mosquitoes. The Cuban three showed the Plasmodium parasites under the microscope, the mosquito vector and chemical quinine. Kenya’s, rather disturbingly, showed a malaria victim looking very ill, with a horrid halo of the malaria infection cycle around his head. Mali’s were the brightest, showing a series of informative tableaux for the benefit of the malaria-stricken letter-senders of the country. On a lighter note, the Vanuatu series depicted a horse-rider (fund-raising charity races), an aeroplane (‘on a mercy mission’), a bright new ambulance, and a ‘mosquito-eradicated’ sign. Hidden among the stamp designs is the occasional error of printing so highly valued by collectors. On the green 100f from Republique de Guinée a few were printed with the black mosquito upside down.

I finally came across one on eBay. More than the 50p the original ‘correct’ printing cost me, but still only a few pounds.

The legs-up death pose makes a silent, optimistic and very moving statement.