Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
London : Frances Lincoln
Description
"Wilfrid Blunt and Sandra Raphael begin with a wide-ranging study of the development of manuscript herbals, their decoration and their botanical and medicinal interest. They then discuss the evolution of the printed herbal, from the first woodcuts to the elegant metal-engravings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century."--book jacket.
Language
Original publication date
1979
Physical description
32 cm
ISBN
0906459028 / 9780906459027
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DDC/MDS
| 615.321 (oversize) |