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    By Jacob George Strutt
    London   For the Author, by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
    11.5" by 8.5" viii [1], 2-151pp
    Illustrated with fifty plates on India paper, this is the first quarto edition of Jacob George Strutt's celebration of the greatest 19th century trees in England and Scotland.
    By Jacob George Strutt

    1830 Sylva Britannica; Or, Portraits of Forest Trees

    London   For the Author, by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
    11.5" by 8.5" viii [1], 2-151pp
    Illustrated with fifty plates on India paper, this is the first quarto edition of Jacob George Strutt's celebration of the greatest 19th century trees in England and Scotland.
    £350.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 980F15
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    Description

    Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound

    First published in 1822, this is the 1830 first quarto edition, with plates on India paper. 

    Illustrated with an engraved title page, and a further forty-nine engraved plates on India paper. Collated, complete.

    Strutt presents detailed engravings of notable trees accompanied by descriptive text that records their location, dimensions, age, and cultural or historical associations.

    The book reflects the Romantic fascination with the picturesque and the natural world.

    Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.

    The work of British portrait and landscape painter and engraver Jacob George Strutt.

    Condition

    Rebacked in calf, retaining contemporary cloth covered boards, with endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to board perimeters, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with significant spotting to plate perimeters, and instances of light spotting to text leaf perimeters. Engraved title page mounted to a new leaf.

    Very Good

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