Leaves from Gerard's Herball |
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User Review - d.homsher - LibraryThingExcerpts from the immense and wonderful Elizabethan Herball or General Historie of Plantes published by John Gerard in 1597. A lovely book for gardeners, if only for the woodcuts reproduced throughout ... Read full review
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| Title | Leaves from Gerard's Herball |
| Authors | John Gerard, Marcus Woodward |
| Editor | Marcus Woodward |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 10 Mar 2010 |
| Length | 305 pages |
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