A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced.
Prideaux John Selby (1788 - 1867)
Category
Books
Date
1842
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3047681
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx,540p. . ill.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. manuscript annotation on front flyleaf: "A Beautiful Copy. Scarce. 3.13.6 - 1904.". Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Nineteenth century armorial bookplate, unsigned, lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade" [1839-1917]. Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Nineteenth-century half green leather, double gilt fillet at leather edges; spine gilt tooled and lettered direct; marbled paper over boards, endpapers marbled to match; page edges gilt at head.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly from the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
Prideaux John Selby (1788 - 1867)