Down The Home Of The Darwins.
£50.00
Publisher
Phillimore for The Royal College of Surgeons of England Lincoln's Inn Fields London.
Place
London
Date
1976
Synopsis
The story of a house and the people who lived there. revised impression.
Item Description
4to. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. viii + 151 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. Minor wear to extremities and very small stain on lower page edge; otherwise a very good copy. Pictorial bookplate. Illustrated by 8 black and white plates and by 6 text figures, including genealogical tables and plans. Decorated by subtitle page vignette. The history of Down House, in the village of Down, Kent, from 1651 and home to Charles Darwin and his family from 1842. By Sir Hedley Atkins(1905-83), President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1966-69. Atkins lived in Down House from 1962 as honorary curator of the Charles Darwin Museum. First published 1974.
[Stock No. 29350]
