A litle herball of the properties of herbes, newly amended [and] corrected, wyth certayn additions at the ende of the boke, declaring what herbes hath influence of certain sterres and constellations, whereby maye be chosen the best and most lucky tymes and dayes of their ministracion, according to the moone beyng in the signes of heaue[n] the which is daily appoi[n]ted in the almanacke, made and gathered in the yeare of our Lorde God. M.D.L. the. xii. daye of February, by Anthony Askha[m] physycyon.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Askham, Anthony, active 1553.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 867:18.

Standardized Title:

Herbal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.

Botany, Medical.

Herbs--Early works to 1800.

Herbs.

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Physical Description:

158 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[Imprynted at London]: [In Paules churcheyearde, at the signe of the Swanne, by Ihon kynge], [1561]

Notes:

One of several versions of an anonymous herbal probably of medieval origin. Askham's name on the title page refers to the almanac, and he may have had nothing to do with the editing of this edition.

Printer's name and address from colophon; publication date from STC.

Signatures: A-K (-K8).

Identified as STC 857 (University of Michigan copy) on UMI microfilm.

Reproduction of the original in University of Wisconsin, Madison. Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1961. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 867:18). s1961 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 13175.19.

Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit., I, p. 12, 14-15; no. 192.

OCLC:

187600091