Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has 1776 edition of "Sylva: a discourse of forest-trees” by John Evelyn

Added at 07:23 on 31 October 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1776 edition of "Sylva: a discourse of forest-trees together with a historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves" by English writer, gardener and diarist John Evelyn who was born #OnThisDay 31 October 1620. Evelyn's diaries, or memoirs, are largely contemporaneous with those of famed diarist Samuel Pepys but were not published until later

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