The Spirit of the Woods; Illustrated by Coloured Engravings by the Author of "The Moral of Flowers" by ANON (Hey, Rebecca) - 1837
by ANON (Hey, Rebecca)
The Spirit of the Woods; Illustrated by Coloured Engravings by the Author of "The Moral of Flowers"
by ANON (Hey, Rebecca)
- Used
Longman, Rees, Orme and others: London, 1837. Botanical art and literature, this rare and beautiful gift book begins: 'The oak is the glory of the British sylva. What the palm is to tribes of the desert, and the banian to the inhabitants of the East, such is the oak to Britons...'. Octavo, 26 hand-coloured plates, nineteenth-century gilt calf, top-edge gilt, with errata slip; three plates have smudges and two have browned, front inner hinge split and detached, else a very good copy, presumed first edition. A bookbinder's dream.
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- Book Condition Used
- Publisher London
- Place of Publication Longman, Rees, Orme and others
- Date Published 1837
- Keywords Stone Pine Holly Elm Beech Lime Linden Oak Ash Beech Scotch Fir Aspen Birch Common Alder Weeping WIllow Mountain Ash Rowan Tree Wild Cherry Yew Hazel Fig Vine Olive Bay Palm Banyan Tree Cedar Sandal Tree Arbutus Sorrowful Nyctanthes Ivy Mistletoe Gue