Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany

• Главный автор: Neville, Sarah (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Серии: Humanities
• Предметы: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Social & cultural history; History of science; British & Irish history; English literature - Renaissance and early modern to; publishing; printing history; history of the book; history of science (general)
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Herbals, books describing the characteristics and uses of plants, were extraordinarily popular as a genre in early modern England. Illuminating the herbal's rich material history and its remarkable popularity across the social spectrum, Sarah Neville reveals the close relationship between print...