Colouration in animals and plants
Colouration in Animals and Plants is a Victorian natural history book of 1886 by Alfred Tylor and Sydney Skertchly, printed in London for a general scientific readership. Its hand-coloured plates compare butterflies by wing pattern: yellow whites and brimstones, dark nymphalids, banded swallowtails, and brown-and-white species, with separate sheets of isolated wing spots and stripes. A designer could draw on the systematic grids, tidy hierarchy of specimens, and muted period palette for pattern studies.
