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Henry John Elwes (1846-1922) & Augustine Henry
The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland Edinburgh: privately printed, 1906-1913. 8 volumes (including index volume), 4° (315 x 250mm). 7 titles printed in colours with decorative borders, 5 coloured frontispieces, one portrait frontispiece, 412 plates, the final index volume with 104 leaves of blank lined paper at back. 20th-century green-stained fallow-deer skin-backed wooden boards, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, top edges stained green, by (?)Birdsall's of Northampton (some fading to spines, and light scuffing to extremities). Provenance: calligraphic manuscript note at front of each volume: "This Book is bound in Fallow deer skin from the Herd in Petworth Park, and the boards are of [name of wood], grown and prepared on the Petworth Estate."
A FINE SET OF THIS IMPORTANT DENDROLOGICAL WORK, PRIVATELY-PRINTED AND LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS COPY WITH EACH VOLUME BOUND IN A DIFFERENT WOOD FROM THE LORD EGREMONT'S ESTATE AT PETWORTH IN SUSSEX. The woods used are as follows: 1. Beech; 2. Walnut; 3. Cedar; 4. Spanish Chesnut; 5. Ilex; 6. Cherry; 7. Elm; 8. Plane. A similar set (7 volumes rather than 8 as here) was sold in London in 1983: in leather and timber from Petworth and bound by Birdsall's of Northampton. The work ends with a postscript from Elwes including the following plea "The future of arboriculture in Great Britain is a brilliant one, if landowners are not deterred from planting by ill-considered or hostile legislation; but the future of pure forestry - in England at least - is very problematical. For though there are districts where the land may - under State foresteres working on a larger scale than private owners - produce a more profitable return under timber than when used for other purposes, yet I believe that these districts are so few and far between that the establishment of a State industry, financed by taxation, to compete with the long-established private industry of timber-growing would not be justified by any advantage that would result to the country". E. Atchison The John Innes Collection p.51; BM(NH) VI,p.300; Nissen BBI 595; Stafleu & Cowan 1665. (8)
The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland Edinburgh: privately printed, 1906-1913. 8 volumes (including index volume), 4° (315 x 250mm). 7 titles printed in colours with decorative borders, 5 coloured frontispieces, one portrait frontispiece, 412 plates, the final index volume with 104 leaves of blank lined paper at back. 20th-century green-stained fallow-deer skin-backed wooden boards, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, top edges stained green, by (?)Birdsall's of Northampton (some fading to spines, and light scuffing to extremities). Provenance: calligraphic manuscript note at front of each volume: "This Book is bound in Fallow deer skin from the Herd in Petworth Park, and the boards are of [name of wood], grown and prepared on the Petworth Estate."
A FINE SET OF THIS IMPORTANT DENDROLOGICAL WORK, PRIVATELY-PRINTED AND LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS COPY WITH EACH VOLUME BOUND IN A DIFFERENT WOOD FROM THE LORD EGREMONT'S ESTATE AT PETWORTH IN SUSSEX. The woods used are as follows: 1. Beech; 2. Walnut; 3. Cedar; 4. Spanish Chesnut; 5. Ilex; 6. Cherry; 7. Elm; 8. Plane. A similar set (7 volumes rather than 8 as here) was sold in London in 1983: in leather and timber from Petworth and bound by Birdsall's of Northampton. The work ends with a postscript from Elwes including the following plea "The future of arboriculture in Great Britain is a brilliant one, if landowners are not deterred from planting by ill-considered or hostile legislation; but the future of pure forestry - in England at least - is very problematical. For though there are districts where the land may - under State foresteres working on a larger scale than private owners - produce a more profitable return under timber than when used for other purposes, yet I believe that these districts are so few and far between that the establishment of a State industry, financed by taxation, to compete with the long-established private industry of timber-growing would not be justified by any advantage that would result to the country". E. Atchison The John Innes Collection p.51; BM(NH) VI,p.300; Nissen BBI 595; Stafleu & Cowan 1665. (8)
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