The world before the deluge.
Figuier, Louis
Category
Books
Date
1865
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3220377
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 448 p., xxxiii leaves of plates (incl. front.) : ill.; 22 cm. zBinder's ticket tipped in at the back: "1/2 brown calf for 2/2 vols Clulow". Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "Charles Edmd Newton Mickleover Oct. 1867" [i.e. Charles Edmund Newton (1831-1908) of Mickleover Manor, nr Derby]. Also inscribed "Godfrey Mosley 1910" [i.e. Col. Godfrey Mosley (1863-1945), son of Rev. Rowland Mosley and Jane Every, m. Hilda Crewe in 1918]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown calf on marbled paper over boards, five false raised bands, gilt tooled and lettered on spine. Text-block edges densely sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Figuier, Louis Bristow, Henry W