The Illustrated Herbal
by Wilfrid Blunt
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This beautiful and original book, fully illustrated from some of the rarest sources, is an account by two leading authorities of the creation and decoration of Europe's most charming herbals. The illustrations, many in splendid color, are taken from manuscripts and books chronicling human curiosity about the medicinal properties of plants, and making an unconscious record, through the strange (sometimes ludicrous) customs and procedures they describe, of life in past times.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1979
- Epigraph
- Furthermore I desire, that none would rashly censure me for that which I have here done; but they that know in what time I did it. -- Thomas Johnson, 'To the Reader', Gerard's Herball, second edition, 1633.
- Dedication
- To Maundy, Poppy, and Gabriel
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- Dutch, English
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- 6
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