Trees and How They Grow FIRST EDITION
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1913.
First Edition. Hardcover. Venture into the misty woodland at sunset depicted on these forest green covers and befriend the trees inside. In these pages, pioneering British botanist and lichenologist Gertrude Clarke Nuttall (1867-1929) offers a life history of these 24 tree species, full of science as well as "fairy lore," for instance: both Mercury and St. Patrick wielded Hazel wands, and the Queen of the Fairies chooses the finest of hazel nuts only to build her chariot; meanwhile the Yew is associated with the graveyard and the Willow "a sad subject" to "the botanist as well as to the poet." Illustrated in 15 color plates from autochromes by H. Essenhigh Corke and 134 black-and-white illustrations from photographs by the author and in its original pictorial cloth binding, this is a true tribute, in word and image, to the beauty and mystery of trees. Trees include, in order of their flowering: Hazel and Elm, Yew and Larch, Willows and Alders, Hornbeam, Poplar, Ash, and Silver Birch, Hawthorn, Walnut, and Oak, Rowan, or Mountain Ash, Beech, Plane, and Holly, Sycamore, Horse Chestnut, and Scots Pine, Wayfaring Tree and Gulder Rose, Elder, Lime or Linden, and, sweetest of all, Sweet Chestnut.
8 1/4" X 5 1/2". xi, 184pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in forest green cloth over boards, with woodland sunset scene stamped in black, gray, orange, pink, and blue to upper board and spine, both lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with hard rubbing to edges and extremities, small tears to head and tail of spine, and hard scattered rubbing to cloth. Foxing to edges of text block. Previous owners' names to free endpapers. Binding is sound. Foxing to pages throughout, else unmarked. Illustrated in 15 autochromes by H. Essenhigh Corke and 134 illustrations from photographs by the author. Good. Item #16497
Price: $145.00