A New Family Herbal: Or a History and Description of all the British and Foreign Plants, which are Useful to Man, Either as Food, Medicine, Farming Purposes, or in the Arts and Manufactures

Brook, Richard

Published by Richard Brook, Huddersfield

About this Item

No date- between 1850 and 1870. 450 pages with instructions to binder listing plates on the back of page 450 plus a 32 page supplement Original boards have been retained and new endpapers added to make the book sound and tight- it has been well done and the original boards are in reasonable condition although the gilt lettering is not very clear.Still quite a nice copy despite the faults set out below. This is the sixth edition enlarged and improved. There is a quarter of an inch margin of water staining to the bottom and half way up on the first few pages including title page and frontis. To be honest this is barely visible except for the first two pages. The top quarter inch of one plate is missing otherwise the plates are all present in very good condition The index to the plants in the supplement is present as are the 25 colour plates, coloured frontis and coloured title page plus the nerves and skeleton and 24 orders of Linnaeus ( these last three are uncoloured) Overall it is very clean internally although the colouring is crude as usual. Seller Inventory # 007174

Bibliographic Details

Title: A New Family Herbal: Or a History and ...

Publisher: Richard Brook, Huddersfield

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: William McLaren

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket