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
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221906
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : ill. (chiefly col.). fol. (32cm). Vol. 1: loosely inserted torn piece of brown paper, used as a bookmark between pp. 302-303. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a racehorse(Hermit, after a painting by Robert Nightingale?) and a man (Lord Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess Londonderry after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence). Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
William Robinson (1838-1935), editor