The Silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford : with descriptions of the coalfields and overlying formations

Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871, Murray, John, 1778-1843, publisher, Clive, Harriet Windsor, 1797-1869, illustrator, Ince, Joseph Murray, 1806-1859, illustrator, Murchison, Charlotte, 1788-1869, illustrator, Phillips, Mrs., active 1839, illustrator, Salter, John William, 1820-1869, illustrator, Stackhouse Acton, Frances, 1794-1881 or 1882, illustrator, Traherne, Charlotte Louisa, -1880, illustrator, Webster, Thomas, 1773-1844, illustrator, Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903, illustrator, Picken, Andrew, 1815-1845, lithographer, Scharf, George, 1788-1860, lithographer, Taylor, Richard, 1781-1858, printer, Taylor, John Edward, active 1840-1855, printer, Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, printer of plates, Gardner, James, publisher and engraver, engraver, Day & Haghe, lithographer, J. Hatchard and Son, binder. DSI, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · 1839 · London : John Murray, Albemarle Street · 9 pictures

A geology monograph by Roderick Murchison, published in London by John Murray in 1839, with plates for specialists in stratigraphy and fossil study. Its pictures are plain engraved plates of fossil trilobites, shells, corals and rock specimens, arranged in grids on cream paper, useful to a designer for their clean hatched line and systematic specimen layouts.

Geology · Geology, Stratigraphic

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