The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London.
John Gerard (1545 - 1612)
Category
Books
Date
1636
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire
NT 3046855
Summary
Bibliographic description
[40],1630,[50]p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; fol. Part of engraved titlepage has been hand coloured. Provenance: endpaper inscribed: "John Innys 1755 Redland Court Gloucr". Leaf affixed to endpaper with ink manuscript, biographical notes on Gerarde and Johnson, in eighteenth-century hand; addressed on reverse: John Innys Esq, At Redland Court near Bristol. Pencil manuscript: C.H's copy [perhaps Charles Holbech (1782-1837)]. Binding: seventeenth or early eighteenth-century calf; double gilt fillet border; gilt tooled spine; six raised bands; gold lettered spine label: Johnson upon Gerard.
Makers and roles
John Gerard (1545 - 1612) Thomas Johnson (1600-1644)