The romance of modern geology : describing in simple but exact language the making of the earth with some account of prehistoric animal life / by E.S. Grew, … ; with twenty-five illustrations.
Grew, Edwin Sharpe
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257396
Summary
Bibliographic description
307, [21] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. With an additional four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): prehistoric creatures; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped prehistoric creatures and gilt lettering on spine; red and white stamped pictorial on spine: prehistoric creature.
Makers and roles
Grew, Edwin Sharpe, author