Medical botany, : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the Materia Medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed. / By William Woodville, ... In three volumes. ...
William Woodville (1752 - 1805)
Category
Books
Date
1790 - 1792
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124738.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1-2 ; 4to. Occasional pencil shading on blank leaves. Pencil note on second front free endpaper: "3 vols and Supplement in 2 vols". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth-century diced calf; gilt rolled outer border and board edges; recessed cords; spines gilt, lettered direct :'Medical botany'; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Woodville (1752 - 1805), author