The eggs of British birds : displayed in a series of engravings, copied and coloured from nature, with descriptions of British birds.
C. Jennings
Category
Books
Date
circa 1855
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3212253
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx [i.e. xxi], [1], 266, [8] p., plates : col. ill. ; 17cm. Bookseller's label on lower pastedown: "Leighton Son & Hodge, Shoe Lane, London". Provenance: Inscribed on upper pastedown: "Vauncey Harpur Crewe [i.e.Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Bt (1846-1924)] with mama's [i.e. Georgiana Jane Henrietta Eliza Stanhope Lovell (1824-1910) m. Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Bt, in 1845] love April 3d 1856". Booklabel on upper pastedown: "R. Crewe" [i.e. Richard Fynderne Harpur Crewe (1880-1921), son of Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Bt, and Isabel Adderley]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full grained cloth, blind border on covers, gilt decoration and lettering on upper cover and spine. Yellow endpapers.
Makers and roles
C. Jennings William Dickes (1815-1892)