  
The grandaddy of them all & most famous English herbal -- the cornerstone & foundation of modern practice -- the herbalist's dream book. This is the complete, unabridged 1633 Revised Edition of the 1597 classic. In both text & illustrations it is a lasting monument of Renaissance botany & a remarkable compendium of Elizabethan folklore & naturalistic description. For serious students of not only herbs, but grasses, rushes, reeds, grains, irises, bulbs, food plants, medicinal plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, bushes, mosses & fungi, as well as corals & sponges, then thought to be plants. This vast storehouse of information & delightful commentary is divided into three books & contains information you would not get from another five or ten books on the subject combined. The book weighs 10 lbs., alone, is nearly 1,700 pages long & covers 2,850 different plants, with 2,705 illustrations, indexes of Latin names, English names, & virtues. For the herbal enthusiast truly interested in plants & their lore, this is the one herbal to have in its entirety. Large format 8½" x 12¼" hardcover; 1678 pages.
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