Research Catalog

Title

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 coal-fields and overlying formations : in two parts / by Roderick Impey Murchison.

Author

Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871.

Publication

London : John Murray, Albermarle Street, 1839

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gardner, J.
• John Murray (Firm), publisher.
• Day & Haghe.
• Richard and John Edward Taylor (Firm), printer.

Description

2 v. (xxxii, 768 p., [16], 37 [i.e. 40] leaves of plates) : ill. (some col., some folded), maps; 32 cm. +

Subjects

• Geology, Stratigraphic > Silurian
• Geology > Great Britain

Note

• Paged continuously.
• The sixteen unnumbered plates in pt. 1 are chiefly lithographs and zincographs (including two double tinted and two hand-colored zincos) printed by "Day & Haghe" from delineated drawings by "C. Murchison" and "C. Marchison" (possibly the author's wife, Charlotte, who accompanied the author in the field), "Lady H.t Clive", "T. Webster", and others. The plates facing p. 152 and p. 427 feature maps "engraved by J. Gardner."
• Plates 1-27 [i.e. 31 plates] are lithographic illustrations of "organic remains" (fossils): inserted at end of pt. 2. There is no plate numbered 28. Plates 29-37 feature hand-colored engravings of 104 cross-sectional views of the geological strata underlying eleven English counties printed on nine folded linen leaves, each bearing the author's signature, laid in as a bound grouping at the end of pt. 2.
• Three large folded col. maps "drawn and engraved by J. Gardner" and printed on linen-backed paper leaves with additional hand-coloring are also laid in at end of pt. 2.
• Pt. 2 has separate t.p.
• "List of subscribers": p. [vii]-xii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

part I: The Silurian region -- part II: Organic remains.

Call Number

PVI+ (Murchison, R. I Silurian system)

OCLC

41664995

Author

Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871.

Title

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 coal-fields and overlying formations : in two parts / by Roderick Impey Murchison.

Imprint

London : John Murray, Albermarle Street, 1839 (London : Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gardner, J., engraver.

John Murray (Firm), publisher.

Day & Haghe.

Richard and John Edward Taylor (Firm), printer.

Research Call Number

PVI+ (Murchison, R. I Silurian system)