The Herball, or, Generall historie of plantes /gathered by John Gerarde of London, master in chirurgerie.
Gerard's Herball, compiled by English surgeon John Gerarde and printed in London by John Norton in 1597, is a herbal cataloguing medicinal and garden plants for English readers and practitioners. Its woodcut pictures show whole plants with roots, stems, leaves and flower heads drawn in dense, precise hatching, useful to designers seeking botanical line detail and period plant forms.
