The Family Herbal, or An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience [...].

HILL, John

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Bungay, C. Brightly, T. Kinnersley, 1812

8vo: xl-376 pp.; 54 pl. (some spotting and browning throughout).

Contemp. sheep, gilt-orn. flat spine, renewed endpapers (corners def., rebacked (?), spine rubbed, def. on covers).

Later edition, before publ. under the title "The useful family herbal", by the English composer, actor and botanist Sir John Hill (1714-1775). Ill. with 54 hand-coloured engravings.
Ref. Cp. Nissen (BBI) 883, Pritzel 4063.
Prov. James Bailey (ms. entry).