Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician

Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician

Harvey Sales, 1981, black and white frontispiece, colour botanical plates, large format hardcover, dust-jacket

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges, no inscriptions or markings, dust-jacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with sticker residue on front and back cover (see photographs)

"This work was first published by Culpeper with Peter Cole under the title of 'The English Physician: enlarged with 369 medicines made of English Herbs.'
Our edition is a true facsimile of the 1826 edition of this famous work.  It contains information on how to preserve one's health and cure common ailments by the use of herbs easily available.
The herbs and their uses are presented in alphabetical order, and are illustrated with 200 hand-coloured drawings which are exquisitely reproduced.  There follows an explanation of the temperaments of the herbs, directions for making syrups and ointments, a separate discussion of herbal medicines and their appliances, Culpeper's selected aphorisms and recipes, plus an addenda of additional herbs.  Finally there is an index."