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
1907
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3021365.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 : ill. ; 4to. Pencil note on rear free endpaper: "7 Vols £60". Ephemera: scrap of paper used as a marker. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Ex Libris. Charles Hervey Hoare'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full green morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'Trees of Great Britain and Ireland', 'Elwes & Henry / Vol. II'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins (floral design); gilt top edge; green watered silk endleaves. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'.
Makers and roles
Henry John Elwes (1846-1922)., author Augustus Henry, author