The trees of Great Britain & Ireland / by Henry John Elwes, F.R.S. and Augustine Henry, M.A.
Henry John Elwes (1846-1922).
Category
Books
Date
1906 - 1913
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3021365
Summary
Bibliographic description
8 v. : ill. ; 4to. 8 v. in 7. Pencil note (erased) on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "7 Vols". Pencil note on rear free endpaper in vol. 1: "7 Vols εσ/-/-". Pencil note on rear free endpaper in vol. 2: "7 Vols £60". Ephemera: scraps of paper used as markers in vols. 2-3. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Ex Libris. Charles Hervey Hoare' in vols. 1-3. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] in all vols. Binding: Twentieth-century full green morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct: 'Trees of Great Britain and Ireland', 'Elwes & Henry / Vol. I[-VII]'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins (floral design); gilt top edges; green watered silk endleaves. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-ins: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'; in vol. 4: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1909'; in vol. 5: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1911'.
Makers and roles
Henry John Elwes (1846-1922)., author Augustus Henry, author