Alpine plants: . figures and descriptions of some of the most striking and beautiful of the alpine flowers. . Edited by David Wooster, F.R.H.S. ...
David Wooster (c.1842 - 1888)
Category
Books
Date
1872
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
260 x 183 mm; 30 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087742
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii,152p.,LIII col. plates . ill.. . 26cm.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Blue embossed cloth with gilt floral centrepiece on front board and gilt lettered on spine.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
David Wooster (c.1842 - 1888)