[GERARD, John] WOODWARD, Marcus (editor)

Gerard's Herball. The Essence thereof distilled by Marcus Woodward from the Edition of Th. Johnson, 1636

London, The Minerva Press, 1971 (facsimile edition)/ 1927 (first thus).

Quarto; gilt-pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, bottom edge uncut; cloth sunned and bumped at the edges, and a little marked; boards a little bowed; leading edge marked; ownership stamp on the front flyleaf; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little worn.

'The Historie of Plants, containing the Description, Place, Time, Names, Nature, and Vertues of all sorts of Herbes, for meat, medicine or sweet-smelling use, &c.' (dustwrapper sub-title).

Item #70048

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