The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland

by Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry

cover of The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, first volume (1906)

 

The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland is a work, written between 1906 and 1913 by Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry.

It was privately published in Edinburgh, and consisted of 7 volumes and an index.

Some editions in libraries have separate volumes with plates, for instance in this edition in BHL.

BHL also has a different edition, where volume 1 and the index are missing, and all the plates are incorporated in the text of the other volumes.

• Volume 1 (1906) (transcription project) (external scan)
  • Plates to volume 1 (1906) - Plates 01 to 60 (transcription project) (external scan)

 

Volume 1 has the following chapters, each treating a genus:

• Fagus. The Northern Beeches
• Ailanthus. Tree of Heaven
• Sophora
• Araucaria
• Ginkgo. Maidenhair Tree
• Liriodendron
• Picea. Spruce-Firs
• Taxus
• Cryptomeria
• Pyrus
• Taxodium
• Thuya

 

• Volume 2 (1907) (transcription project) (external scan) (Plates 061 to 126 included)^[1]

 

Volume 2 has the following chapters:

• Thujopsis
• Aesculus
• Tsuga
• Juglans
• Common or Stalked-cupped Oak
• Larix
• Pinus Laricio^[2]
• Pinus leucodermis
• Gymnocladus
• Cedrela
• Pterocarya
• Cladastris

 

• Volume 3 (1908) (transcription project) (external scan) (Plates 127 to 206 included)

 

with the following chapters:

• Cedrus
• Libocedrus
• Cunninghamia
• Liquidambar
• Nyssa
• Sassafras
• Corylus
• Carpinus
• Ostrya
• Nothofagus
• Arbutus
• Sciadopitys
• Pinus sylvestris, Scots Pine
• Carya
• Platanus
• Acer
• Sequoia

 

• Volume 4 (1909)
  • Plates to volume 4 (1909) - Plates Frontispice, and 208 to 270
• Volume 5 (1910) (external scan)
  • Plates to volume 5 (1910) - Plates 271 to 339 (external scan)
• Volume 6 (1912); with Plates 340 to 371 included (external scan)
• Volume 7 (1913); with Plates 372 to 412 included (external scan)
• Index (1913) (external scan)

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1. ** Volume 2 (1907) (transcription project) (external scan) (without Plates)
   • • Plates to volume 2 (1907) - Plates 58A and 61 to 126 (and 366) (external scan)
2. The generic description of Pinus is given in part....