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The older generations of people,
who left us so many of the wonderful older trees we enjoy, did of course not
have access to the amazing choice of pictorial information which we have today.
One of the most common ways of conveying images in books was through engravings.
I had hoped to honour this form of art with a few examples, but have had
difficulty finding material (I live very rurally and without private transport
at present). If you can contribute pictures from old books you have, they would
gratefully received. Here are five examples, who had the rough
"reducing-to-less-than-10Kb-treatment", but they still manage to
convey the astounding skill engravers had to show detail, as well as creating
"mood".
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The Alder - Alnus
glutinosa
Photo of an engraving from a
1905 book:
"TREES, a handbook of Forest-Botany for the woodlands and
the laboratory" by H. Marshall Ward, Cambridge University
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The Larch -
Larix europea
Photo of an engraving from a
1905 book:
"TREES, a handbook of Forest-Botany for the woodlands and
the laboratory" by H. Marshall Ward, Cambridge University
Press. |
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The Oak -
Quercus robur
Photo of an engraving from a
1905 book:
"TREES, a handbook of Forest-Botany for the woodlands and
the laboratory" by H. Marshall Ward, Cambridge University
Press. |
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Birch -
Betula alba
Photo of an engraving from the
introductory page of a 1879 book, called "Trees and
Ferns" by Francis George Heath, Sampson Low, Marston &
Co. The artist is not specifically mentioned.
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Druid cutting
mistletoe in Oak with golden sickle
Photo of a rather poor old
photocopy, which a friend gave me a few years ago. Does anyone
know who the artist is and where it came from? |
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