GEOLOGY. – Catherine Mary WEBBER. Geology Familiarly Illustrated.

GEOLOGY. – Catherine Mary WEBBER. Geology Familiarly Illustrated. [London: J.B. Goodinge], 1859. Folding panorama, (3382 x 133mm. and covers 143 x 200mm.) Title and 31 hand-coloured lithographed caricatured scenes above a geological section, linen -backed, numbered and captioned, in folding panorama. (Title and scene 1 replaced in facsimile, archival tape to folds, toning.) Later cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine (browned to edges). Note: Catherine Mary Webber published two other comical works: ‘The Experience of an Amateur Artist’, 1858, and ‘Miss Scratchley, an Amateur in Art and Crinoline’, 1863. This work pokes fun at the popularity of geology in mid-Victorian England.

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