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Sylva, Or, a Discourse of Forest Trees - With an Essay on the Life and Works of the Author (Paperback)
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Sylva, Or, a Discourse of Forest Trees - With an Essay on the Life and Works of the Author (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture, Volume 1
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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was an offshoot of Evelyn's unpublished manuscript Elysium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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