Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany

by Sarah Neville

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316515990
• ISBN13: 9781316515990
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"