Flora and sylva : a monthly review for lovers of landscape, woodland, tree or flower; new and rare plants, trees, shrubs, and fruits; the garden beautiful, home woods, and home landscape. / Edited by, and printed and published for, W. Robinson, author of "The English flower garden", "Alpine flowers for gardens", and "The wild garden".
William Robinson (1838-1935)
Category
Books
Date
1903 - 1905
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3097332
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; fol. (32cm). Bookseller's pencil note on front pastedown in vol. 1: "Fine copy £3-15-0". Pencil page references on front free endpaper in vol. 2. Occasional pencil text marking in all vols. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (Franks 26404): 'Ex libris G. Sebright'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half vellum, ivory cloth over boards; gilt lettered spines; gilt top edges.
Makers and roles
William Robinson (1838-1935), editor