Silva: . or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in his Majesty's dominions;as it was delivered in The Royal Society, on the 15th of October, 1662, ... Together with an historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves.
John Evelyn (1620-1706)
Category
Books
Date
1812
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3009724
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.(50,[2],330;393,[9],88,[2]p.),[46] plates (some folded) . port.. . 4to.. Shelved and bound uniformly with Evelyn's Memoirs (1818). Provenance: Binding stamp with Baron's coronet lettered S [probably Scarsdale]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf binding; double gilt and quadruple blind fillet border; gilt coronet centrepiece; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered: "Silva by Evelyn"
Makers and roles
John Evelyn (1620-1706) Alexander Hunter (1729-1809)