The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland

by Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry

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

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

 

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....