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Crania Britannica delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British Islands: with notices of their other remains. by Joseph Barnard Davis and John Thurnam

Joseph Barnard Davis

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/2118

Author

Imprint

London: Printed for the subscribers, MDCCCLXV

Physical Description

2 volumes: illustrations; 37 cm.

General Note

Printed by Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
Frontispiece portrait of Joseph Barnard Davis engraved by R. J. Lane.
Pasted on to front flyleaf a letter dated [1863] from John Thurnam.
Volume 1: text. Volume 2: plates and description.
Verso of front flyleaf: pasted in carte-de-visite of John Thurnam by photographers Moira & Haigh.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Provenance

Purchased for the RA Library 1874-5. RA Annual Report 1875.

Binding Note

Brown half bound leather with marbled boards, gold tooling and lettering on spine. Title on black and volume numbering on red. Marble edged text block and marbled endpapers.

Subject

Ethnography
Skulls
Human remains
Anthropology

Contributors

John Thurnam, author
G. H. Ford, illustrator
W. West, lithographic printer
Richard Lane ARA, engraver
Moira & Haigh, photographers
Taylor and Francis (London), printer