The forest trees of Britain.
Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1974)
Category
Books
Date
1894
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3212430
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 431, [1], 4 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20cm. Various loosely inserted newspaper cuttings relating to specific trees and a satirical poem on the Boer War. Provenance: Inscribed on upper pastedown: "R.F.H.C." [i.e. Richard Fynderne Harpur Crewe (1880-1921), son of Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Bt, and Isabel Adderley]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full green cloth, gilt and black embossed, gilt lettered on spine. Patterned endpapers.
Makers and roles
Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1974) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Committee of General Literature and Education