The illustrated natural history.
John George Wood (London 1827 - Coventry 1889)
Category
Books
Date
1865
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140383
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii,[1],800p., plate . ill.. . 26cm.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. Bound uniform with NT128560. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Nineteenth century armorial bookplate, signed "CWS", lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade" [1839-1917]. Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco, double gilt fillets at leather edges; textured cloth over boards; five false raised bands; spine gilt tooled and lettered direct: "Mammalia Wood Vol.I"; marbled endpapers; binder's ticket: Aubrey Binder Salisbury.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly in the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
John George Wood (London 1827 - Coventry 1889)