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

• Yazar: Neville, Sarah (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Seri Bilgileri: Humanities
• Konular: 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)
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...