A curious herbal, . containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings, taken from the life. By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants; their common uses in physick. ...
Elizabeth Blackwell
Category
Books
Date
1737
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3147196
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates . chiefly ill.. . fol.. Loosely inserted (v.1): Red page-marker ribbon; loosely inserted (v.2): two pressed leaves / flowers, the first in paper folder inscribed: "Gathered by Sir G Crewe at Calke March 42th 1822.". Provenance: Eighteenth century armorial bookplate: Sr. Edwd. Wilmot [possibly Sir (George) Edward Wilmot (1693-1786), physician, originally from Chaddesden, Derbyshire]. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; triple gilt fillet borders; gilt tooled spine and board edges; six raised bands; spine-label missing.
Makers and roles
Elizabeth Blackwell