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.

The Plant Index

394 entries from the herbal’s own index, each pointing to the plate it is engraved on.

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