Studies the development of manuscript and printed herbals, their making and decoration, and their medicinal significance and reproduces over sixty illustrations from forty-three different herbals

Product Description: An Oak Spring Pomona is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon.  The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings...read more

Product Description: The "Tractatus de herbis", reproduced here, is one of the many rare and precious manuscripts in the collections of the British Library. It is an illustrated herbal which comes from a collection of pharmacological texts written in southern Italy around AD 1300AD, which is now known as British Library Egerton MS 747...read more