A nievve herball, or historie of plantes : wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers & sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes, their names, natures, operations and vertues : and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, common vsed in physicke
A Nievve Herball is a 1578 London herbal translated by Henry Lyte from Rembert Dodoens and published by Gerard Dewes for English readers interested in medicinal plants. Its woodcuts show whole plants drawn stem to root with finely cut leaves, flower heads and roots, a plain botanical style a designer could adapt for line-art botanical motifs.
