British moths and their transformations. / Arranged and illustrated in a series of plates by H. N. Humphreys, Esq. With characters and descriptions by J.O. Westwood, ... In two volumes. ...
Henry Noel Humphreys (1810-1879)
Category
Books
Date
1854
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3237228.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition, revised and corrected. v.2, plates : col. ill. ; 29cm (4to). Bookseller’s ticket: Rowbottom, bookseller, Derby. Provenance: t.p. inscribed "Vauncey Harpur Crewe with his mother's love on his 9th birthday Octbr: 14th 1855" [i.e. Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th baronet (1846-1924) from Georgiana Stanhope Lovell Crewe (1824-1910)]. Binding: nineteenth-century quarter re morocco, with red cloth on boards (mostly hidden), plain cloth jacket sewn on top; gold textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Henry Noel Humphreys (1810-1879) John Obadiah Westwood (1805 - 1893)