A nievve herball, or Historie of plantes : wherein is contayned the whole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes : their divers & sundry kindes ... and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes commonly used in physicke ; first set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue
A nievve herball, or Historie of plantes is a 1578 botanical herbal printed at London by Gerard Dewes, translated by Henry Lyte from Rembert Dodoens's Flemish text, for English readers interested in plants used in physic. Its pictures are small woodcuts of single flowering plants shown whole, roots to flower tops, set against blank page margins, offering a designer clear botanical line drawings of leaves, stems and roots.
