A history of British butterflies.
The Reverend Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893)
Category
Books
Date
1870
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140400
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 159, [1], 24 p., plates (most col.) . ill.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. Bound uniform with the author's 4-volume "A natural history of British moths" (1872).. 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 sheep; blind rolled at leather edges; cloth over boards; five false raised bands; spine gilt tooled; brown spine labels, gilt lettered; marbled endpapers; page edges gilt at head; 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
The Reverend Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893)