A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton].
A household herbal by Robert John Thornton, published in London in 1814, cataloguing British and foreign medicinal plants by the Linnaean system for lay readers and home practitioners, with wood engravings cut by Thomas Bewick. The plates are small hand-coloured cuts of single stems, leaves and flower heads printed over letterpress, useful for compact botanical spot art, line-and-tint leaf textures and sprig motifs.
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