Thoughts on a pebble, or, A first lesson in geology / By the author of "The wonders of geology".
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852)
Category
Books
Date
1849
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3226013.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Eighth edition; ... xiii, [1], 5-102, [4], 4 p., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 17 cm. With only 4 numbered final advertisement leaves (List of works, July, 1849). Loose insert: manuscript booklet: Insects by R.F.H. Crewe. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "G Crewe 1857"; separately beneath "R.F.H. Crewe 1898 from Nanny" [i.e. Richard Fynderne Harpur Crewe (1880-1921)]. Binding: publisher's blue cloth, blind embossed, gold lettered and decoarted on upper cover.
Makers and roles
Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852), author