Longman, Rees, Orme and others, London, 1837

Octavo, 26 hand-coloured plates, nineteenth-century gilt calf, top-edge gilt, with errata slip; four plates are smudges and two have browned, front inner hinge is split and detached, else a good copy

'By the author of The Moral of Flowers' A rare and beautiful gift book of botanic illustration, poetry and rambling meditation. The author has illustrated the work from nature, enjoying many long days in the forest: "Of all inanimate objects trees are the most companionable. Every breath of air makes them vocal and they discourse most eloquent music, apparently adapting their tones to the mood of the listener... How beautiful is the wooded landscape! Be the season what it may, trees always excite admiration."

$AU 420.00