A truly beautiful celebration of natural history, "Iconotypes. A compendium of butterflies and moths" presents an incredible facsimile of Thomas Jones’s Icones, a groundbreaking work in the study of Lepidoptera. This stunning book reproduces Jones’s finely detailed paintings of over 760 species of butterflies and moths, many of which he was the first to document. The original work, created between the 1780s and 1800, drew from Jones's personal collection as well as those of notable figures like Joseph Banks and the British Museum. In 1787, scientist Johann Christian Fabricius used these very paintings to describe 231 new species. The modern edition, Iconotypes, enhances the original by providing expert commentary, clarifying historic references, and including modern taxonomic names and annotated maps that show where each species was found. Expert entomologist Richard I. Vane-Wright also offers a look into Jones's life, his passion for collecting, and the lasting significance of his work.