Signatures: [*]¹ (?)² (?)(?)¹ **² A-G² N² [+]¹ I-M² H² O-Z² Aa-Cc² a-g² h¹. Hand colored illustrations., Text on versos of most maps., and Title-page and maps hand-colored; inlaid.
Printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge,
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 and Cooking -- Early works to 1800|Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800|Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800|Beauty, Personal -- Early works to 1800|Women -- Education -- Early works to 1800
Foldout frontispiece measures 32 x 23 cm. and Signatures: [a]1(folding leaf, "The meaning of the frontispice")[b]1(added engr. t.p.) [?]-[?][?]4([?]1[blank?]wanting)*-**4[?]-[?][?]B-Hh4Ii2.
Publisher:
Printed by B. Alsop and T. Favvcet, for Michaell Sparke, dwelling in Greene Arbor,
Colophon: 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., and Title, mended, within elaborate engraved border, coat of arms of Lord Burghley on verso. Full page portrait of author facing p.1, dated 1598.
Attributed, not without some doubt, to Mrs. Hannah Woolley, afterwards Mrs. Challinor--cf. Dict. of nat. biog., Engr. illustrated half-title., and Signatures: 2 l. unsigned, A-I12K6 (frontispiece and plates included in the signatures).
Publisher:
Printed for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers ARms and Anchor, in the Piazza, at the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil,
Translated from Claude Boutet's Traité de mignature. Cf. Bibl. Nat. and With: The British legacy. London : T. Chandler, 1754
Publisher:
Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, facing St. Magnus-Church, London-Bridge, and M. Cooper, at the Globe, Pater-Noster-Row,
Subject (Name):
Hilles, Frederick Whiley,--1900---Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Colors--Early works to 1800, Drawing--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800, Engraving--Early works to 1800, and Miniature painting--Early works to 1800