Evelyn (John) Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, subscriber's copy, inscribed "To Mr. L. Pickard from his frd the Editor", additional ink inscriptions, engraved portrait frontispiece by Bartolozzi, 40 plates of which 34 hand-coloured, 1 folding and trimmed to platemark, with additional folding plate, original folding watercolour tipped-in, small marginal tears and losses, neat tissue-repairs, occasional spotting, faint off-setting, corrections inserted by hand, contemporary diced calf, rebacked and recornered, gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, York, A. Ward for J. Dodsley, 1776.

⁂ Additionally illustrated with a large folding plate, with 'R. Collet sculp' to bottom corner. The standard Cowthorpe Oak plate is immediately followed by a large double-page original 18th century watercolour of the same oak. Judging from the detail when compared to the engraving, it was probably drawn from the same spot.