Gerard's Herball.

(Carrington.) [GERARD (John)]

Gerard's Herball.

The Essence thereof distilled by Marcus Woodward, from the Edition of Th. Johnson, 1636.

Description: portrait on title and 114 woodcuts in the text, occasional very faint spots pp. xix, 303, 4to, original green buckram, vignette to upper board stamped in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded with nick at head, corners a little bumped, t.e.g., others gently toned with some very faint spotting to endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (recording this as a Christmas gift from Carrington, see below), hand-coloured botanical illustration from another work laid in, good

Publication Details: Gerald Howe, 1927

Notes: The copy of Bloomsbury Group artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), recording it as a gift from Carrington - her friend from the Slade. Bagenal's husband, Nicholas Beauchamp Bagenal, was a horticulturalist (referred to as 'the fruit grower' by Virginia Woolf in her correspondence).

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