Green’s Herbal: Arctium (Burdock) and Antholyza antique print c1819

$65.00

Woolly-headed Burdock, Seed Vessels, Scarlet-flowered Antholyza, Arctium herbs.

Original copperplate engraving by G. Dobie for the encyclopedia of herbal knowledge, The Universal Herbal, or, Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary by Thomas Green. Published Henry Fisher's Caxton Press in Liverpool c1819 (with later hand-colour). Yhis important English herball contained an account of all the known plants in the world arranged according to the Linnean System, specifying the uses to which they are or may be applied, whether as food, as medicine, or in the arts or manufactures, with the best methods of propagation and the most recent agricultural Improvements.

The full page size is 26.5 x 20.5mm (10.4" x 8")