Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print

by Jessica Rosenberg

During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful knowledge to a growing class of literate landowners and pleasure gardeners. Both trends, Jessica Rosenberg shows, reflected a distinctive style of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512823333
• ISBN13: 9781512823332
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.1" x 6.4"