Mattioli's herbal : a short account of its illustrations, with a print from an original woodblock / [John Bidwell].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bidwell, John, 1949-

Contributor:

Whittington Press.

Pierpont Morgan Library

Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1501-1577. Commentarii in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis ... de materia medica--Illustrations.

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea.

Herbals--Illustrations--History--To 1500.

Herbals.

Botanical illustration--16th century.

Botanical illustration.

Block printing.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

Herbals--Illustrations.

History.

Genre:

Pictures.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 13 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : facsimile ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Picturing natural history.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, [2003]

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picturing natural history : flora and fauna in drawings, manuscripts, and printed books", held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Feb. 12-May 4, 2003.

Text signed: John Bidwell.

With half-title.

Ed. of 300 numbered copies.

"This edition of 350 copies is set in 16-point Monotype Centaur and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper by John Randle at The Whittington Press, Whittington Court, Gloucestershire, and John Grice at The Evergreen Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Each copy contains a print from the original woodblock of asarum from Mattioli's Herbal of 1562. Three hundred copies are half-bound in buckram ..."--Colophon.

Unnumbered copies also issued, with joint imprint: The Morgan Library, New York and The Whittington Press, Gloucestershire.

Plate inserted in a back pocket.

Includes bibliographical references (page [15]).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.

Library has copy no. 175.

ISBN:

0875981399

OCLC:

51742830