THE ILLUSTRATED HERBAL

Wraps (PB) in very good condition with couple of small black smudges to cover tiny fold upper right hand corner of cover. Publishers label back cover. Wilfrid Blunt and Sandra Raphael begin with a wide-ranging study of the development of manuscript herbals, their decoration and their botanical and medicinal interest. They then discuss the evolution of the printed herbal, from the first woodcuts to the elegant metal-engravings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The book is illustrated throughout with sixty-four superb colour plates and some eighty black and white manuscript illustrations, woodcuts and engravings, all of which are accompanied by the authors' descriptive, explanatory and historical notes on the manuscripts and books themselves." 192 pages Includes index.