Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry | The trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh, 1906-13, 8 vols, half morocco

Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry

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

FIRST EDITION, 8 volumes (including index volume), 4to (314 x 249mm.), coloured lithographed frontispieces in volumes 1-5, frontispiece portrait of the authors in volume 7, 413 further plates and diagrams (complete with 58a in volume 1 and 293a in volume 5), red half morocco by Robson & Co., Ltd., spines with raised bands in six compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, preliminary leaves slightly browned at extremities

“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).

LITERATURE:

Nissen BBI 515; Stafleu TL2 1665