"A booke of the properties of Herbes, called an Herball.
Whereunto is added the tyme that Herbes, Floures and Seedes
should bee gathered to bee kept the whole yeare, wyth the
vertue of the Herbes when they are stylled. Also a generall
rule of all maner of Herbs, drawen out of an auncient booke
of Physicke by W. C. _Walter Carey._ Contains besides X{4}
in eights. For him."
1550 (date assigned by Mr. Gordon Duff, but in Ames 1552).
"The book of the properties of herbes, called an herball,
etc., drawn out of an ancient book of phisyck by W. C."
1550. A lytel | herball of the | properties of her- | bes
newely amended & corrected, | with certayne addicions at the
ende | of the boke, declaryng what herbes | hath influence
of certaine Sterres | and constellations, wherby may be |
chosen the beast & most luckye | tymes and dayes of their
mini- | stracion, accordynge to the | Moone being in the
sig- | nes of heauen, the | which is dayly | appoynted | in
the Almanacke, made & gathered | in the yere of our Lorde
god | M.D.L. the xii day of Fe- | bruary by Anthonye |
Askham Phi- | sycyon.
_Colophon._ Imprinted at | London in Flete- | strete at the
signe of the George | nexte to Saynte Dunstones | Churche by
Wylly- | am Powell. In the yeare of oure Lorde | M.D.L. the
twelfe day of Marche. Black-letter 8vo.
1550 A litle Her- | ball of the properties of Herbes, |
newly amended & corrected, wyth | certayne Additions at the
ende of | the boke, declaring what Herbes | hath influence
of certain Sterres | and constellations, whereby maye | be
chosen the best & most lucky | tymes & dayes of their
mini- | stracion, according to the Moone | beyng in the
signes of heauē | the which is daily appoī | ted in
the Almanacke, | made and gathe- | red in the yeare | of our
Lorde | God. | M.D.L. the xii daye of Febru | ary by Anthony
Askhā | Physycyon |
_Colophon._ Imprynted at London, in | Paule's churchyarde,
at the signe of the Swanne, by | Ihon Kynge. | Black-letter
8{vo}.
1555-1561 (approximate date assigned by Mr. H. M. Barlow).
¶ A boke of the | propreties of Herbes called an her | ball,
whereunto is added the time y{e} | herbes, floures and Sedes
shold | be gathered to be kept the whole | yere, with the
vertue of y{e} Her | bes when they are stilled. Al- | so a
general rule of al ma- | ner of Herbes drawen out of an
auncient | boke of Phisyck | by W. C. |
_Colophon._ ¶ Imprinted at London by | Iohn kynge, for |
Abraham Wely |. Black-letter 8{vo}.
_The Grete Herball._
1516. The Grete Herball. Imprented at London in Southwark by
me Peter Treveris. MD XVI. the xx day of June.
(Mentioned by Ames. No copy of this edition in any of the
chief British libraries and no other record of it.)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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