The most interesting edition of the herbal is that printed by William Copland, in which first appear the additional chapters on "The virtues of waters stylled," "The tyme of gathering of sedes" and "A general rule of all maner of herbes." He issued two editions bearing the same title and differing only in the woodcuts and the colophon. The title is "A boke of the | propreties of Herbes called an her- | ball, whereunto is added the tyme y{e} | herbes, floures and Sedes shold | be gathered to be kept the whole, ye- | re, with the vertue of ye Herbes whē | they are stylled. Al- | so a generall rule of all ma- | ner of Herbes drawen | out of an auncyent | booke of Phisyck | by W. C." The woodcut in the first edition is three "Tudor" roses in a double circle with a crown over one of the roses and across the riband "Kȳge of floures." In the second edition the woodcut is a quaint little representation of a lady seated in a garden. One man standing behind her is holding her and another is walking towards her. The three figures are near a wall, on the other side of which several men are apparently conversing. Who W. C. was is uncertain. In the _Dictionary of National Biography_ William Copland is said to be both the author and the printer of the book, but in many catalogues (notably in that of the British Museum) Walter Cary figures as the author. In a lengthy account of the Carys in _Notes and Queries_ (March 29, 1913) Mr. A. L. Humphreys disposes conclusively of the supposition that W. C. can stand for Walter Cary. "_A Boke of the Properties of Herbes_ bears on the title-page the initials W. C., which may stand either for Copland or Cary. This was one of several editions of _Banckes's Herbal_, then very popular, and although it may have been edited or promoted in some way by a Walter Cary, it could not have been by the one who wrote _The Hammer for the Stone_. The 'Herball' was issued somewhere about 1550 and various editions of it exist, but all these appeared when the Walter Cary we are considering was a child. There is, however, a connection between the Carys and herbals, because it is well known that Henry Lyte (1529-1607) of Lytes Cary was the famous translator of Dodoens's _Herball_ (1578), and he had a herbal garden at Lytes Cary." Ames in his _Typographical Antiquities_ describes the two editions, which are identical, as though they were two different books, and ascribes one to Walter Cary and the other to William Copland. We have only Ames's authority for the supposition that Copland was the compiler as well as the printer. The herbal in question is merely another edition of _Banckes's Herbal_, but it is quite possible that the three additional chapters at the end were "drawen out of an auncyent booke of Physick" by Copland.[49]