STRUTT, JACOB GEORGE: ‘SILVA BRITANNICA; OR PORTRAITS OF FOREST TREES’
published for the author by Longman, Rees, et al, London 1830, later three quarter brown calf bound with marbled boards and black leather half title, inside from board pasted with Archbishop of Canterbury bookplate
Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.
Provenance: Pasted note to front flyleaf detailing this volume’s history - reputedly a remnant of an auction of a library of the Duke of Pembroke. Inscriptions and plate infer the volume at one time belonged to an Archbishop of Canterbury and the ms notes on some trees refer to his estate;
A Dorset bibliophile.
