EVELYN, John (1620 – 1706)
1620 – 1706
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1661 CE
#145.5
Fumifugium: or the inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London dissipated. Together with some remedies humbly proposed.
A pioneering attack on air pollution caused by “the hellish and dismall cloud of sea-coal” which perpetually enveloped London. Of course, the problems Evelyn wrote about did not go away, and the work conti…
1664 CE
#145.51
Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, and the preservation of timber in His Majesty’s dominions.
A protest against the careless destruction of England’s forests to fuel the furnaces of the glass and iron industries. The work was influential in establishing a much-needed program of reforestation that had a l…
1968 CE
#11230
John Evelyn: A study in bibliopphily with a bibliography of his writings
Second edition, revised. First published in 1937 by The Grolier Club and Cambridge University Press.