A BOOK OF TREES

by
ADRIAN HILL

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• Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket; 128 pages; Size Approx. 7 1/2 X 10.
• Published by Faber & Faber; copyright 1951, First Edition.

Details: "There are at least two different ways of looking at trees.  One can look at them, dispassionately, as super-vegetables, owning various botanical characters.  Or one can look at them, passionately, as the most beautiful and varied large-scale adornments with which Earth has covered her nakedness.
     Mr. Adrian Hill approaches trees as an artist, rather than a botanist or an arboriculturist.  He loves them, and sees them in their totality -- winter and summer alike, different as these two aspects are; and for the beautiful drawings making up this book, he has chosen individual models which have been allowed to develop their proper beauty.
     Foresters, concerned only for the saleable products of afforestation, may not much like this book.  The tree, grown as a crop, is a thing of little or no beauty.  In many parts of England, however, there are still very many lovely trees, planted simply for the sake of their loveliness -- and by men who could not have hoped to see that slow growth of beauty achieed in their own lifetime.
     These are the trees still living and growing, that Mr. Hill's pencil lovingly portrays.  Each drawing is a drawing of an individual tree.  Banish the idea that a tree is just a vegetable, or a mere prop for pits and housing-programmes.  See the tree as a tree, and think again!"  (from the dust jacket flap)
     The book has a brown cloth binding with green lettering on the spine.  Illustrated with various trees in black and white on 104 different plates.
     A fine addition for your bookshelf!

Condition:  The book is showing very light wear; the endpapers are unevenly tanned; otherwise the book is in good condition with a firm binding and clean pages.  The spine on the dust jacket is sunned and has water spots on it (see picture); the folds are darkened; light edge wear; otherwise it is in good condition.

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