Illustrations of the land and fresh water conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, . with figures, descriptions, and localities of all the species. Drawn and coloured from nature by Captain Thomas Brown, M.P.S., ...
Captain Thomas Brown (1785-1862)
Category
Books
Date
1845
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3058256
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi,[1],144p, plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. Cutting (illustration and explanatory text) attached to blank leaf at the end, manuscript annotation at foot of cutting: "Joshua Alder, Esqr.".. 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 white leather, single ornamental gilt fillet at leather edges; maroon cloth over boards; maroon? spine label, gilt lettered; marbled endpapers; page edges gilt at head; binder's ticket: Aubrey Binder Salisbury. Spine and leather at head badly discoloured.
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
Captain Thomas Brown (1785-1862)