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Gerard, John (1545-1612) The Herball or General Historie of Plantes.
London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636.
Folio, third edition overall, the second edition with revisions by Thomas Johnson; the text derived from earlier herbals by Dodoens and Cruydeboeck; engraved architectural general title with a portrait of Gerard at the foot by John Payne (Io: Payne sculps:); with the engraved portrait of the author by William Rogers (active 1584-1604) at the age of fifty-three in 1598 tacked to the ffep opposite the title page; lacking the first and last blank leaves; illustrated with more than 2,500 botanical text woodcuts; bound in full contemporary calf boards ruled in blind, rebacked and recornered, later endleaves and pastedowns; contents with some offsetting, a few paper flaws, 13 3/4 x 9 in.
