Popular British conchology : a familiar history of the molluscs inhabiting the British Isles / by George Brettingham Sowerby.
Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854
Category
Books
Date
1854
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3226009
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xii, 304 p., 20 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm. Imperfect: wants plates 2 and 6; pl. 1 placed after 15. With initial 'Mr. Reeve's List of publications', May, 1855 (23,[1]p.), bound in. Priced in pencil: 10/6. Juvenile scribbled lines on rear endpaper. Provenance: no further ownership marks. Binding: publisher's blind embossed brown cloth, gold stamped upper cover pictorial. gold lettered and decorated spine. Provenance: no further ownership marks. Binding: publisher's blind embossed brown cloth, gold stamped upper cover pictorial. gold lettered and decorated spine.
Makers and roles
Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854