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The Old English Herbals
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Anglo-Saxon leechbooks, Turner's herbal, Gerard's famous volume: Rohde reads them all and reports back with a scholar's care and a gardener's affection. Her history follows English plant books from manuscript charms to the great printed herbals, quoting generously along the way. The standard companion to England's herbal literature, and a pleasure in its own right. Open it and hear the old herbalists speak.
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24 chapters
- 1THE OLD ENGLISH HERBALS
- 2PREFACE
- 3FOOTNOTE:
- 4CONTENTS
- 5LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6CHAPTER I THE ANGLO-SAXON HERBALS
- 7FOOTNOTES:
- 8CHAPTER II LATER MANUSCRIPT HERBALS AND THE EARLY PRINTED HERBALS
- 9FOOTNOTES:
- 10CHAPTER III TURNER’S HERBAL AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOREIGN HERBALISTS
- 11FOOTNOTES:
- 12CHAPTER IV GERARD’S HERBAL
- 13FOOTNOTES:
- 14CHAPTER V HERBALS OF THE NEW WORLD
- 15FOOTNOTES:
- 16CHAPTER VI JOHN PARKINSON, THE LAST OF THE GREAT ENGLISH HERBALISTS
- 17FOOTNOTES:
- 18CHAPTER VII THE LATER SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY HERBALS
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