The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in ChirvrgerieGerard, John, 1545-16121597.by Iohn NortonColophon: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton. M.D.XCVII.Epistle Dedicatorie [to Sir William Cecil, baron Burghley] -- [Commendatory verse and prose, mainly in Latin] -- To the courteous and well-willing Readers. -- First booke of the Historie of Plants, containing Grasses, Rushes, Corne, Flags, Bulbose, or Onion-rooted Plants. -- Second booke ... Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbs for meate, medicine, or sweete smelling vse, etc. -- Third booke ... Containing Trees, Shrubs, bushes, Fruit-bearing plants, Rosins, Gums, Roses, Heath, Mosses: some Indian plants, and other rare plants ... Also Mushroms, Corall, and their seuerall kindes, etc. -- Index latinvs ... stirpivm. -- Index nominum Herbarum, quibus Pharmacopolarum officinæ, Barbari & Arabes vtuntur. -- Nominvm et opinionvm harmonia et consensus. -- Table of the English names. -- Supplement or Appendix vnot the generall Table, and to the Table of English names : gathered. -- Table, wherein is contained the Nature, Vertue, and Danger of all the Herbes, Trees and Plants.Errors in paging.Signatures: A⁴, B⁶, A⁸-Vvv⁸, Xxx¹⁰; Aaaa-Tttt⁸, Vvvv⁶; Aaaaa-Iiiii⁴, last verso blank.Title, mended, within elaborate engraved border, coat of arms of Lord Burghley on verso. Full page portrait of author facing p.1, dated 1598.text