Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry | The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. 1906-13, 15 parts in 7 volumes

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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November 15, 01:12 PM GMT

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500 - 700 GBP

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Property from the Library at Spetchley Park

Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry

The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. Edinburgh: privately printed, 1906-1913

FIRST EDITION, 15 original parts in 7 volumes, 4to (318 x 252mm.), 5 coloured lithographed frontispieces, photogravure frontispiece portrait in volume 7, 413 plates and diagrams, original printed wrappers and cloth-backed printed portfolios with ties, minor spotting, some edges rubbed

“The most important work of Elwes’s life was begun in 1903 when, with his friend Augustine Henry, he undertook the production of Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. Henry wrote the strictly botanical parts and Elwes contributed sections on the distribution, history, and cultivation of species, drawing on his knowledge of an immense number of species in their native habitat" (ODNB).

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