Elwes, Henry John and Augustine Henry

FIRST EDITION, 15 original parts in 7 volumes, 4to (320 x 260mm.), 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 foxing to some titles, one upper cover with small abrasion

Nissen BBI 595

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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“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).