A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical (1881)
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, Jackson, John, 1801-1848, Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884 · New York : J. W. Bouton · leaf 439
Munsters work, which was several times reprinted between1550 and 1570. Those which are substituted in the later editions arerather more neatly engraved. The present cut is copied from one at page 49 of the first edition,where it is given as an illustration of a wonderful kind of tree saidto be… … appears like a ball of leaves. This fruit, falling at iis proper time intothe water below, becomes animated, and turns to a bird which they callthe tree goose. This tree also grows in the island of Pomona [the largestof the Orkneys], not far distant from Scotland towards the north. Asold…
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