Insects abroad . being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations. By the Rev. J.G. Wood, ... Illustrated with six hundred figures, by E. A. Smith and J.B. Zwecker, engraved by G. Pearson.
John George Wood (London 1827 - Coventry 1889)
Category
Books
Date
1892
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140408
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii,780p., plates . ill. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Meade collection.. 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 cream leather; single gilt fillet at leather edges; blue morocco over boards; blue spine lable, 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
John George Wood (London 1827 - Coventry 1889)