DIXON, Frederick. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850. First edition, 4to (307 x 239mm.) Half-title, coloured lithographic frontispiece, 43 engraved and lithographic plates, including 2 in colour and 2 double-paged, ‘Corrigenda’ leaf to rear. (Toning, all preliminaries spotted, plates with stamp to all upper margins and some scattered spotting, stamps and labels verso title, blanks replaced.) Later tan morocco-backed cloth, gilt lettering and reference to spine (extremities rubbed). Provenance: West Sussex County Council (labels to front and rear pastedowns). – And a further two volumes by Frederick Dixon, (‘The Geology of Sussex; or the Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex’, new edition, 1878, 4to, and a further copy of the 1850 first edition) (3).