Principles of geology; . or the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. By Sir Charles Lyell, . Illustrated with maps, plates, and woodcuts.
Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Category
Books
Date
1853
Materials
bookcloth and paper
Measurements
230 x 150 mm; 71 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3074029
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 835 p., 5 leaves of plates . ill.. . 23cm.. With a postcard-sized 'List of the Strata on the Yorkshire coast' laid in at p.217; three newspaper cuttings on earthquakes laid in at p. 473, and a cutting laid in at p. 665 giving the substance of an article by Huxley on the physical basis of life that had appeared in the Fortnightly Review.. Provenance: Bookseller's embossed stamp on flyleaf: 'T. Sowler & Sons Booksellers Manchester'. manuscript on half-title: GO Trevelyan [i.e. Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928). Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).]. Binding: Publisher's cloth.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875)