List of British entomological publishers

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Britain has a number of specialist entomological publishers:

• Amateur Entomologists' Society (http://www.amentsoc.org/) publishes various entomological handbooks, as well as the Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society.

• British Wildlife Publishing has published identification guides to Lepidoptera and Odonata.

• E. W. Classey is based in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. It produced reprints of Norman Joy's A Practical Handbook of British Beetles in 1976 and 1997. No longer trading.

• The Company of Biologists publishes the Naturalists' Handbooks series.

• Gem Publishing Company (http://www.gempublishing.co.uk/) is based in Oxfordshire. It is best known as the publishing house for the entomological journals Entomologist's Gazette and Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. No longer trading.

• Harley Books is based in Colchester, Essex. It is best known as the publisher of the multi-volume series Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland.

• Pemberley Books (Publishing) (http://www.pemberleybooks.com/). Since 2007 Pemberley Books has been publishing the journals Entomologist's Gazette and Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. They also have the back stock of the entomological publications of Gem Publishing and of E. W. Classey.

• Peregrine Productions (http://www.bombus.freeserve.co.uk/) publishes a range of laminated insect identification plates.

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