EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Silva, London, 1776, 4to, 40 plates (lacks portrait), calf (rebacked). EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by A. Hunter to his son. With another edition in 2 vols. (3)

EVELYN, John (1620-1706) & Alexander HUNTER (1729-1809, editor).  Silva: Or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions ... Together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves ... With Notes by A. Hunter. York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley (and others), 1776. 4to (297 x 235mm). 40 engraved plates, including one folding, folding letterpress table at the end (lacking portrait, some light browning and offsetting of plates onto text, occasional light spotting and staining, final leaf of index torn without loss). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: some early informed ink annotation to folding letterpress table. EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Master George Hunter from his affectionate Father, A: Hunter." cf. Brunet II, 233; Henrey 137; Keynes 98; Nissen BBI 615. With another edition of the same work in 2 vols. (1812), with portrait and plates, bound in contemporary diced calf. (3)