The illustrated natural history.
John George Wood (London 1827 - Coventry 1889)
Category
Books
Date
1853
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3204755
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 524 p., plates : ill. ; 19cm.Copious annotations in text. With loosely inserted notes between lower endpapers in the hand of Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Bt (notes on Calke Park). With additional child's drawings of animals pasted on endpapers. Provenance: Inscribed on upper pastedown: "Vauncey Harpur Crewe [i.e. Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Bt (1846-1924), son of Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Bt, and Georgiana Stanhope Lovell] from his grand Papa Wm Stanhope Lovell [i.e. William Stanhope Lovell (d. 1859)] Oct. 1 1854." Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full red blind embossed cloth, gilt centre-piece, gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Textblock loose, lower joint broken.
Makers and roles
John George Wood (London 1827 - Coventry 1889) William Harvey (1796-1866) Dalziel Brothers