LOUDON, John Claudius.

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Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum; First edition of this comprehensive work, "a survey on a scale never before attempted of all the trees grown in the British Isles, whether native or exotic" (ODNB)."This monumental work consisted of four volumes of dense text and four of drawings to illustrate and help identify all the different tree species currently known to be growing successfully in Britain. It both fixed the state of knowledge of individual trees and their movements across the globe at a particular time and was instrumental in encouraging further enthusiasm for collecting and planting new tress" (Watkins, p. 69)This is the uncoloured issue; it was also issued with the plates coloured.

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