Evidence as to man's place in nature.
Thomas Henry Huxley PC PRS FLS(1825-1895)..
Category
Books
Date
1863
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
234 x 148 mm; 20 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3088492
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],159,[1],8p. . ill.. (diagrs., frontis.) . 8vo.. Bookseller's pencil price of 8/6 on pastedown.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on half-title, crossed through and now illegible: C.G[?] 1863. manuscript above this: 'GO Trevelyan', [i.e. Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928)]. 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: Green cloth, gilt lettered on spine: 'Man's place in nature/ T.H. Huxley'.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Thomas Henry Huxley PC PRS FLS(1825-1895)..