A history of British Mollusca, and their shells.
Edward Forbes (1815-1854)
Category
Books
Date
1853
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3057523
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v., plates (col.) . ill.. . 8vo.. Ticket on pastedown of v.1: Rowbottom, bookseller, Derby. Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate with swash initials, "GJHELHC" [i.e. Georgiana Jane Henrietta Eliza Lovell (1824-1910) m. Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Bt, in 1845]. Binding: Nineteenth-century diced calf inding, gilt decoration on spines.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Edward Forbes (1815-1854) Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819-1899)