General conchology : or, a description of shells, arranged according to the Linnean system and illustrated with sixty plates, ... By W. Wood.
William Wood (Kendal 1774 - Ruislip 1857)
Category
Books
Date
1835
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3187302
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],iv,7,[1],lvi, 246 p., 59 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm. Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas William Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson, created Earl of Lichfield, 1831 (1795-1854); and also used by subsequent earls]. Binding: nineteenth-century green morocco, with marbled paper over boards; gold tooled spine, with stamped shell design.
Makers and roles
William Wood (Kendal 1774 - Ruislip 1857)