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.
The herbal’s 171 copperplate engravings, shown large — and the book’s own index of plants to find them by.
What eighteenth-century England called its plants, and what that tells you.
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L'ABRIDGE de bon fruits; or, The Abridgment of good fruits, &c. published by C. Cercy, at Paris, 1675, in Octavo. In this work a…