| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Authorship, book history, and the effects of artifacts -- The Stationers’ Company and constraints on English printing -- Salubrious illustration and the economics of English herbals -- Reframing competition : the curious case of the little Herball -- The Grete Herball and evidence in the margins -- “Unpublished virtues of the earth” : books of healing on the English Renaissance stage -- William Turner and the medical book trade -- John Norton and the redemption of John Gerard |
| Summary |
"Towards the end of the dedicatory epistle in his De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (Basel, 1542), Leonhart Fuchs turned his attention away from the study of plants to commend the person responsible for bringing his massive illustrated botanical text to fruition: At this point I should say more about the hard work and care in the printing of this book by Michael Isingrin, the most painstaking printer of Basel, except that we know that these qualities are sufficiently known and proved by the many works that have issued from his workshop for some years now. And surely this work speaks for itself well enough, as to how diligent he was in printing it"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
English literature - Renaissance and early modern to |
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publishing |
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printing history |
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history of the book |
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history of science (general) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2022) |
| Subject |
Herbals -- England -- History and criticism
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Botany -- England -- History
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Publishers and publishing -- England -- History
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Botany
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Herbals
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Publishers and publishing
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021034747 |
| ISBN |
9781009031615 |
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1009031619 |
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