Collins Tree Guide. The Most Complete Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Europe.
Language: English
Published by HarperCollins, London, 2004
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Dustwrapper, stout small folio, pp.464. Illustrated. Substantial and comprehensive guide to the trees of Britain and non-Mediterranean Europe, covering shape, height, leaf appearance, bark, buds, flowers, variants and similar trees. Identification is built in the text around diagnostic features, with over 1500 trees described. Even winter twigs are covered. A most huggable tome. Light creasing to wrapper edges in places, several minor indents to wrapper on rear cover, but overall a nice crisp copy. Near fine in at least VG dustwrapper. Very heavy book weighing c2700g when parcelled, exceeding the postage quotation default weight of 1000g and thus incurring extra postage over the default for orders from overseas and those sent in the UK.
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- Title
- Collins Tree Guide. The Most Complete Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Europe.
- Author
- Johnson, Owen & More, David
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, London
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0007191634
- ISBN 13
- 9780007191635
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
The definitive, fully-illustrated guide to the trees of Britain and non-Mediterranean Europe
The Collins Tree Guide to the trees of northern Europe contains some of the finest original tree illustrations ever produced. The combination of authoratative text, accurate illustration and superb production make this one of the foremost, top-of-the-range, natural history books currently available. This large format edition also contains extra information on hardiness and garden interest.
The introduction contains illustrations of the main leaves, buds, and firs you are likely to find, and these provide the starting point for identification by leading you to a 'key' species.
Within each tree family there is a list of key species and a guide to the most important features to look for when identifying a particular tree from that family. Then individual species are clearly described and a detailed illustration is given on the same page.
Covering all the tree species found outside the major arboretums, from the olive tree to the eucalyptus, this is one of the most important tree guides to have appeared in the last 20 years. The illustrations are annotated with essential identification features, and the text highlights the most important things to look for to aid fast and accurate identification. There is also coverage of all the species native to Southern Europe.
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About the Author
Owen Johnson is Assistant Registrar to the Tree Register, and has spent the last ten years studying and recording trees at many hundreds of estates around Britain; he also manages a nature reserve for Sussex wildlife Trust. He is author of The Sussex Tree Book (1998) and The Kent Tree Book.
David More has been a botanical illustrator for many years. His previous books include Collins Gem Trees.
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