Sarah Neville
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
Between 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as 'herbals'. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a series of tiny anonymous octavos to authoritative folio tomes with thousands of woodcuts, and how these curious works quickly became valuable commodities within a competitive print marketplace. Designed...