Life of a Scotch naturalist. Thomas Edward associate of the Linnean society.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
Category
Books
Date
1884
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3185094
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxv, [1], 392 p., plates. ill., port.. 8vo. Provenance: inscribed on half-title by the author "To Ernest Sington from the author S Smiles Christmas 1886". Inscribed also: "Leonard Messel from Aunt Georgie". Provenance: armorial bookplate, motto Dirigat deus, lettered “Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel” [i.e. Leonard Messel (1872-1953)]. Binding: bound uniform with four other works by Smiles in half polished calf; brown marbled paper over boards, marbled endpapers; gold tops; title gold-lettered direct onto spine. Binder's stamp "John Bumpus ...".
Makers and roles
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) Sir George Reid (1841-1913)