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Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair.
The Old English Herbals.
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co. London;
Date of Publication: 1922
Stock Code: 9611
First edition. Quarto, pp. xii, 243, [1]. With colour frontispiece and captioned tissue guard, seventeen further facsimile woodcut vignette plates. Elegantly bound by Bayntun in twentieth century half moss-green levant morocco and pale green cloth over boards, with five gilt rolled raised spine bands; gilt fillet frames to spine compartments and gilt spine titles. Blue and green marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Near fine, with a white scratch and two small splashes to cloth on lower board. An elegantly bound first edition of Rohde’s seminal bibliographical research into the history of plant-lore, magic, and folk medicine via the development early English herbals. £125.00