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SYLVA, OR, A DISCOURSE OF FOREST TREES
WITH AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE AUTHOR |
By: |
John Evelyn, John Nisbet (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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ISBN 10: |
1108055265 |
ISBN 13: |
9781108055260 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
Pub. date: |
21 February, 2013 |
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Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture |
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458 |
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A 1908 two-volume reissue of a pioneering 1664 work on forestry, encouraging tree-planting in order to improve the Royal Navy's supply of timber. |
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John Evelyn (1620-1706), intellectual, diarist, gardener and founder member of the Royal Society, is best known for his Diary, the great journal of his life and times, encompassing a momentous period in British history. A lifelong collector of books, like his contemporary Pepys, Evelyn amassed over 4,000 items in his library. This work, originally published in 1664, was the first English-language treatise on forestry. Intended for the gentry, it aimed to encourage tree-planting after the ravages of the Civil War and to ensure a supply of timber for Britain's fast-developing navy. The first work sponsored officially by the Royal Society, it was an offshoot of Evelyn's unpublished manuscript Elysium Britannicum, a compendium of gardens and gardening. This is the 1908 two-volume reprint of the fourth edition, published in the year of Evelyn's death. Volume 1 describes different species of tree, deciduous and evergreen, and includes an introductory biography of Evelyn by John Nisbet (1858-1914). |
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1 b/w illus. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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