The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland

The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland (1906–1913)
Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry
4401104The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland1906–1913Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry

The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland is a work that consists of 7 volumes, an index, and separate volumes with plates to the first 5 volumes (bibliographic overview in BHL).

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

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


  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....