1853: English Forests and Trees: Historical, Legendary signed Introduction
1853: English Forests and Forest Trees: Historical, Legendary and Descriptive with Numerous Illustrations ( Samuel Lane Boardman [ Maine naturalist ] Signed )
By: No Author / Anonymous ( Ingram, Cooke, and Co. ) ( Samuel Lane Boardman [SIGNED] related)
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----------( 1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, solid Fair to Good example, sunning to the spine, overall wear and rubbing including some loss to cloth at corners and tips, some foxing and stains to interior pages, SIGNED and DATED " Samuel Lane Boardman June 12 " (likely 1853 ) Boardman was an agricultural editor, writer, and journalist and of a noted Maine naturalist, as well there is a bookplate on the verso of the front board for "The Samuel Lane Boardman Library ", bookplate includes the number code which is repeated on a small paper label on the spine (see scans), 406 pages, b&w illustrations throughout, a scarce title with a notable provenance, --chapters include: Forests in General; English Forests in the Days of the Britons, Romans, Saxons and Normans; Particular Accounts of Forest Trees; Windsor Forest and Castle; Epping and Hainault; The New Forest / The Norman Kings / Beaulieu and Netley Abbeys / George iii and the Gipsies / Animals; Dartmoor; Dean; Lancashire and Cheshire; Sherwood Forest / Traditions of Robin Hood / The Parliament oak / Maid Marian / Newstead Abbey / Lord Byron / Annesley Hall / Hardwick Hall; Southern Forests; Miscellaneous and Minor Forests; Forest-Laws and Hunting Practices; Inhabitants; Flowers; Management of Forests; Revenue and Expenditure of the Forests; Foreign Forests; Appendix; Index,
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Edition: First Edition
Illustrator: No Cover Art
Location Published: London, England, London, UK: Ingram, Cooke, and Co,m 1853, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1853
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good (see description)
Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued
Inscription: Signed (see description)
Size: 5.75w x 8.75h Inches
Categories: Non Fiction
Seller ID: 170826
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