I. Manuscript herbals, treatises on the virtues of herbs, etc. Manuscripts written in Latin after 1400 are not included in this list. II. Printed books. The herbals are listed according to authors, or, in the case of anonymous works, according to the names by which they are usually known, and full titles, etc., of all known editions are given. In cases where only one copy of an edition is known the library where it is to be found is indicated. Editions mentioned in Ames, Hazlitt, etc., but of which no copies are now known, are listed, but in each case the fact that the only mention of them is to be found in one of the above is stated. FOREIGN HERBALS 225 This list includes only the chief works and those which have some connection with the history of the herbal in England. INDEX 237 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _Facing page_ HERBS BEING DUG UP AND MADE INTO MEDICINES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A SAGE _Frontispiece_ ÆSCULAPIUS PLATO AND A CENTAUR FROM THE SAXON TRANSLATION OF THE "HERBARIUM OF APULEIUS" 10 MANDRAKE FROM A SAXON HERBAL 22 (1) ARTEMISIA AND (2) BLACKBERRY, FROM A SAXON HERBAL 30 FROM A SAXON HERBAL 40 WOODCUT OF TREES AND HERBS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF "DE PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM" 48 INITIAL LETTERS FROM "BANCKES'S HERBAL" 56 WOODCUT FROM THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE "GRETE HERBALL" (1526) 64 WOODCUT OF PETER TREVERIS' SIGN OF THE "WODOWS" FROM THE "GRETE HERBALL" (1529) 70 WOODCUT FROM THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE "GRETE HERBALL" (1561) 71 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM TURNER'S "HERBALL" 88 PORTRAIT OF JOHN GERARD FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF THE "HERBALL" (1597) 104 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SASSAFRAS AND TOBACCO FROM NICHOLAS MONARDES' "JOYFULL NEWES OUT OF THE NEWE FOUNDE WORLDE" (1577) 128 TITLE-PAGE OF PARKINSON'S "PARADISUS" (1629) 144 TITLE-PAGE OF PARKINSON'S "THEATRUM BOTANICUM" (1640) 152 PORTRAIT OF JOHN PARKINSON FROM THE "PARADISUS" (1629) 160 NICHOLAS CULPEPER FROM "THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED" 166 FRONTISPIECE OF "THE CURIOUS DESTILLATORY," BY THOMAS SHIRLEY, M.D., PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY (1677) 174 THE OLD ENGLISH HERBALS CHAPTER I THE ANGLO-SAXON HERBALS