A Compleat Herbal

James Newton's folio herbal shows the plants themselves: copperplate engravings of everything an eighteenth-century physician or gardener might need to recognise, from asphodels and adder's tongue to the mandrake and the mulberry.

Table of Contents

The Plates

171 engraved plates, each shown large on its own page

The Plant Index

The book's own index of plant names, linked to the plates

A Catalogue of the Authors

The authors quoted in the herbal, and what country they were of

The Physick Garden

What eighteenth-century England called its plants, and what that tells you

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