The Stowe catalogue priced and annotated:
Henry Rumsey Foster (1815-1884)
Category
Books
Date
1848
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 3113523
Summary
Bibliographic description
xliii,[1],310,22p., [16] plates . ill.. . 4to.. Not indigenous. Newspaper clippings affixed to pastedown and flyleaf. Loosely inserted: publishers' flyer sent to subscribers, made out to Dr. Rooke.. Provenance: Nineteenth-century MS note and pasted clipping concerning removal of items from the geological collection: p.268. On rear pastedown: late nineteenth-century armorial bookplate lettered Dr. Charles Rooke F.G.S. [of Scarborough: see subscribers list]. (Franks 25470?) Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter brown morocco; blind-stamped green cloth boards; gilt spine title.
Makers and roles
Henry Rumsey Foster (1815-1884)