MANTELL, Gideon. The Fossils of the South Downs; or, Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. [London: Lupton Relfe, 1822.] First edition, 4to (298 x 232mm.) Half-title, 4pp. ‘Subscribers’, 40 aquatint and engraved plates by Mrs. Mantell, including 1 hand-coloured geological map and 3 hand-coloured geological section plates and 2 folding plates, bound-in publisher’s note, 1p. publisher’s advertisement to rear. (Title page with publisher’s detail torn away, spotting to frontispiece, first leaves with marginal tear, marginal spotting to some plates, 1 colour plate loosening, browning.) Later black morocco-backed green cloth, gilt lettering and reference to spine. Provenance: ‘Lady Crewe’ (ink name inscribed to title); West Sussex Reference Library (labels to pastedowns and stamps). – And a further two volumes (William Berry’s ‘County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex’, 1830, folio, and William Turner’s ‘A Compleat History of the Most Remarkable Providences, both of Judgement and Mercy, Which have Happened in this Present Age’, 1697, folio) (3).