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Author: Forbes, James
Title: Salictum Woburnense: or, a Catalogue of Willows Indigenous and Foreign in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey
Place Published: [London]
Publisher:[J. Moyes]
Date Published: 1829
Description:

xvi, [4], 294 pp. Folding lithographed frontispiece printed on india paper and mounted; 140 hand-colored engraved plates after R.C. Stratford. (4to) 28.7x19 cm (11¼x7½"), disbound, rear cover present but detached, spine strip partially perished. One of 50 copies. First Edition.

Presentation copy inscribed on front flyleaf, above the printed limitation slip: "For Edward Forster, Esq. F.R.S. &c. From the Duke of Bedford." A rare and exceptional series of meticulously rendered hand-colored plates depicting the willows in the famous garden, the "Willow Ground", at the family seat of the Duke of Bedford. The garden boasts a collection of over 200 different species of English willow, conceived by George Sinclair (the Duke of Bedford credits him with initiating the idea in the introduction), and carried out by James Forbes, his successor, the author of the present work. Perforated stamp of John Crerar Library to upper right corner of title page, withdrawn rubberstamp on the verso.

Some foxing to frontispiece and early leaves, inscribed flyleaf moderately soiled with some edge wear, small piece missing from lower corner; only a bit of minor foxing within, a few tissue guards missing, quite clean overall, an excellent candidate for rebinding.