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Family Herbal

$1,600.00

The Family Herbal , or an account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience. also, Directions for the gathering and preserving roots, herbs, flowers, and seeds; the various methods of preserving these simples for present use; receipts for making distilled waters, conserves, syrups, electuaries, juleps, draughts, etc. etc. with necessary cautions in giving them. Intended for the use of families. by Sir John Hill, M.D.

Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, ca. 1812-1820

Even More Simplified binding. Cave paper spine wrapper laced on with binder-made green and brown linen sewing supports. Boards a five-layer, multi-color laminate of Murillo. Green tissue rolled endbands. Ruscombe Mill endpapers. Includes 54 hand-colored plates. Bound 2021.

21 x 14 x 5 cm
8 ¼ x 5 ½ x 2”

Paper seemed so much more appropriate than leather for this herbal intended for home use. Colors drawn from the text’s fifty-four hand-colored illustrations.

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The Family Herbal , or an account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience. also, Directions for the gathering and preserving roots, herbs, flowers, and seeds; the various methods of preserving these simples for present use; receipts for making distilled waters, conserves, syrups, electuaries, juleps, draughts, etc. etc. with necessary cautions in giving them. Intended for the use of families. by Sir John Hill, M.D.

Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, ca. 1812-1820

Even More Simplified binding. Cave paper spine wrapper laced on with binder-made green and brown linen sewing supports. Boards a five-layer, multi-color laminate of Murillo. Green tissue rolled endbands. Ruscombe Mill endpapers. Includes 54 hand-colored plates. Bound 2021.

21 x 14 x 5 cm
8 ¼ x 5 ½ x 2”

Paper seemed so much more appropriate than leather for this herbal intended for home use. Colors drawn from the text’s fifty-four hand-colored illustrations.

The Family Herbal , or an account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience. also, Directions for the gathering and preserving roots, herbs, flowers, and seeds; the various methods of preserving these simples for present use; receipts for making distilled waters, conserves, syrups, electuaries, juleps, draughts, etc. etc. with necessary cautions in giving them. Intended for the use of families. by Sir John Hill, M.D.

Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, ca. 1812-1820

Even More Simplified binding. Cave paper spine wrapper laced on with binder-made green and brown linen sewing supports. Boards a five-layer, multi-color laminate of Murillo. Green tissue rolled endbands. Ruscombe Mill endpapers. Includes 54 hand-colored plates. Bound 2021.

21 x 14 x 5 cm
8 ¼ x 5 ½ x 2”

Paper seemed so much more appropriate than leather for this herbal intended for home use. Colors drawn from the text’s fifty-four hand-colored illustrations.

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