Geology and inhabitants of the ancient world described by Richard Owen. The animals constructed by B. W. Hawkins.

Sir Richard Owen

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/3349

Author

Imprint

London: Crystal Palace Library, Bradbury & Evans, 11 Bouverie Street, 1854

Physical Description

40 pages: illustrations; 18 cm.

Series Title

Crystal Palace Company official handbooks

General Note

Bound in a collection of five Crystal Palace guides issued with collective title-page reading The palace and park : its natural history, and its portrait gallery, together with a description of the Pompeian Court, ... - London : Crystal Palace Library ; and Bradbury and Evans, 1854.
Description of the display at the Crystal palace exhibition.

With Note

With plan of the geological lake in the Crystal Palace park, Sydenham showing the position of the dinosaur models; lithographed by Maclure & Co.

Reproductions

A copy of this book from the Getty Research Institute has been digitised and made availabe online via the Hathi Trust.

Binding Note

19th-century blue cloth-covered boards, upper cover and spine lettered 'The Palace, Park, and Portrait Gallery'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Guidebooks
Geology

Contributors