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An Oak Spring Sylva: A Selection of the Rare Books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library (Oak Spring Garden Foundation Series) - Hardcover
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An Oak Spring Sylva is the first of a series of discursive catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. Each volume in the Oak Spring series will be a lovely and useful compendium for book collectors, librarians, and garden historians. This volume, which deals with books and manuscripts on trees, describes nearly fifty books, manuscripts, or drawings, from a tiny 1555 book on oaks to early nineteenth-century advice manuals on large-scale tree planting.
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Oak Spring Garden Library comprises Rachel Lambert Mellon's celebrated collection of rare books, manuscripts, works of art, and related artifacts concerning gardens, gardening, landscape design, horticulture, and botany. Conserved at Upperville, Virginia, in a striking library designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes in consultation with Rachel Mellon, the collection is both a unique historical archive and a day-to-day working resource. Among Rachel Mellon's own contributions to the art of garden design are the Rose Garden and Jacqueline Kennedy Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C. Her honors include the Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Royal Horticultural Society's Veitch Gold Medal, and the American Horticultural Society Landscape Design Award, and recently she has been recognized for her assistance during the restoration of the Potager du Roi at Versailles.
The cloth-bound catalogues that describe the holdings of the Oak Spring Garden Library are printed on acid-free paper and are designed, printed, and bound to the highest standards. Each volume is richly illustrated with duotone and color images.
An Oak Spring Sylva: A Selection of the Rare Books on Trees (1989)
An Oak Spring Pomona: A Selection of the Rare Books on Fruit (1990)
An Oak Spring Flora: Flower Illustration from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time (1997)
An Oak Spring Hortus: Garden Design in the West since the Renaissance (forthcoming)
An Oak Spring Flora Mundi: Regional Floras and Travels (forthcoming)
An Oak Spring Herbaria: Herbs and Herbals in Western Culture (forthcoming)
About the Author
Sandra Raphael is a writer and editor who has been studying the bibliography and history of natural history for many years. Her earlier work includes The Illustrated Herbal (a collaboration with Wilfrid Blunt, published in 1979) and articles on botanical illustration, herbals, plant collecting, nurserymen, and other subjects in The Oxford Companion to Gardens (1986). From 1969 to 1983 she was also a senior editor on the staff of A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary (1972-86), dealing with natural history and bibliographical research. She still lives in Oxford, where she cultivates a small, extremely informal garden furnished with interesting plants from other people's domains, acquired in constant exchanges with gardeners who share her taste.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0300046529
- ISBN 13 9780300046526
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages182
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AN OAK SPRING SYLVA: A SELECTION OF THE RARE BOOKS ON TREES IN THE OAK SPRING GARDEN LIBRARY. DESCRIBED BY SANDRA RAPHAEL.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 147 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Patterned endpapers. "(This) is the first of a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The 'Sylva', which deals with books and manuscripts on trees, will be the smallest volume of the series, describing nearly fifty books, manuscripts, or drawings, from a tiny 1555 book on oaks to early nineteenth-century advice on large-scale tree-planting, a range including both great books, like Evelyn's 'Sylva', Duhamel's 'Traite des Arbres', and Michaux's 'North American Sylva', and more modest ones, like Marshall's 'American Grove', which helped introduce the riches of American forests to European gardens in the eighteenth century. Each description makes clear the background of each book and its relationship to others, while a generous number of illustrations in colour and black and white help to give an impression of their contents. Many of the Oak Spring copies have particularly interesting associations, recorded in inscriptions, book plates, or binding details, all of which are described." Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, small line indentation on rear hinge. Seller Inventory # 23640
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