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
1801
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3092206
Summary
Bibliographic description
ill., plates (some folded), port.. . 4to.. Provenance: Vol. 1: Remnant of a black and white bookplate superimposed on an a prior red lettered label of 'Library and Printing Office / Rouse, Kirby & Lawrence / Printers, Booksellers and Stationers / St. George's Street Canterbury', inscribed in pencil '6288'. - Page numbers indicated in in ink in the 'Table of fructification'. Vol. 2 lacks the bookplate the place has been covered by a blank sheet. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled-paper boards, gold-ruled spines, red sp;ine-labels, gold-lettered. Uncut. Boards detached.
Makers and roles
John Evelyn (1620-1706) Alexander Hunter (1729-1809)