EVELYN (JOHN)Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His majesties Dominions... to which is Annexed Pomona..., third edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THE EARL OF ESSEX, inscribed on fly-leaf "For the Rigt. Hon.ble &c. The Earle of Essex, from... most humble servant JEvelyn", with 3 short ink emendations to the text in a contemporary hand (pp.183, 267 and errata leaf), title printed in red and black, 5 engravings in the text (one full-page), errata leaf at end, some light soiling and browning, a few small rust holes and spots (mostly not affecting text), pencil markings and notes in margin, contemporary mottled calf with gilt panelling (wearing away), g.e., corners repaired, rebacked with gilt panelled spine, [ESTC R5987; Henrey 134; Keynes 42], folio (325 x 196mm.), John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1679FootnotesIMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY - INSCRIBED BY JOHN EVELYN TO THE 1ST EARL OF ESSEX ON THE OCCASION OF HIS VISIT TO CASSIOBURY IN 1680, THUS CEMENTING THEIR SHARED LOVE OF GARDENS AND TREES. At the restoration, Arthur Capell was created Viscount Malden and Earl of Essex, and for a time served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Chief Commissioner of the Treasury. In 1680 he returned to the family seat at Cassiobury, Hertfordshire, rebuilt the house and sent his gardener to France to study the beauties of Versailles so that he could have his own gardens laid out in the "Louis quatorze" style. As John Evelyn records in his diaries, he visited Cassiobury on 16 April 1680 "on the earnest invitation of the Earl of Essex," and he dedicates a glowing passage to a description of the house and grounds: "The house, is new, a plain fabric, built by my friend, Mr. Hugh May There are divers fair and good rooms, and excellent carving by Gibbons... The library is large and very nobly furnished and all the books are richly bound and gilded... No man has been more industrious than this noble Lord in planting about his seat, adorned it with walks, ponds and other rural elegancies" (John Evelyn Diary and Correspondence, ed. William Bray, 1850, vol. 2, pp.140-141). Three years later, the Earl of Essex was accused of complicity in the Rye House Plot, apprehended at Cassiobury and imprisoned in the Tower, where he was found dead shortly afterwards with his throat cut. Provenance: John Evelyn; inscribed to Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631–1683); Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670-1710), bookplate dated 1701; presumed part of the Cassiobury Library sale, Hodgson's, 1922; purchased by Sir John Stanhope Arkwright (1872-1954), thus bringing it back to a former Evelyn family home (Kinsham was bought by Lyndon Evelyn in 1824); David Lyndon Arkwright (1911-83), invoice made out to him for a new spine in 1980.
EVELYN (JOHN)Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His majesties Dominions... to which is Annexed Pomona..., third edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THE EARL OF ESSEX, inscribed on fly-leaf "For the Rigt. Hon.ble &c. The Earle of Essex, from... most humble servant JEvelyn", with 3 short ink emendations to the text in a contemporary hand (pp.183, 267 and errata leaf), title printed in red and black, 5 engravings in the text (one full-page), errata leaf at end, some light soiling and browning, a few small rust holes and spots (mostly not affecting text), pencil markings and notes in margin, contemporary mottled calf with gilt panelling (wearing away), g.e., corners repaired, rebacked with gilt panelled spine, [ESTC R5987; Henrey 134; Keynes 42], folio (325 x 196mm.), John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1679FootnotesIMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY - INSCRIBED BY JOHN EVELYN TO THE 1ST EARL OF ESSEX ON THE OCCASION OF HIS VISIT TO CASSIOBURY IN 1680, THUS CEMENTING THEIR SHARED LOVE OF GARDENS AND TREES. At the restoration, Arthur Capell was created Viscount Malden and Earl of Essex, and for a time served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Chief Commissioner of the Treasury. In 1680 he returned to the family seat at Cassiobury, Hertfordshire, rebuilt the house and sent his gardener to France to study the beauties of Versailles so that he could have his own gardens laid out in the "Louis quatorze" style. As John Evelyn records in his diaries, he visited Cassiobury on 16 April 1680 "on the earnest invitation of the Earl of Essex," and he dedicates a glowing passage to a description of the house and grounds: "The house, is new, a plain fabric, built by my friend, Mr. Hugh May There are divers fair and good rooms, and excellent carving by Gibbons... The library is large and very nobly furnished and all the books are richly bound and gilded... No man has been more industrious than this noble Lord in planting about his seat, adorned it with walks, ponds and other rural elegancies" (John Evelyn Diary and Correspondence, ed. William Bray, 1850, vol. 2, pp.140-141). Three years later, the Earl of Essex was accused of complicity in the Rye House Plot, apprehended at Cassiobury and imprisoned in the Tower, where he was found dead shortly afterwards with his throat cut. Provenance: John Evelyn; inscribed to Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631–1683); Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670-1710), bookplate dated 1701; presumed part of the Cassiobury Library sale, Hodgson's, 1922; purchased by Sir John Stanhope Arkwright (1872-1954), thus bringing it back to a former Evelyn family home (Kinsham was bought by Lyndon Evelyn in 1824); David Lyndon Arkwright (1911-83), invoice made out to him for a new spine in 1980.
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