The Old English Herbals - Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

The Old English Herbals

By Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

  • Release Date: 2010-09-06
  • Genre: Nature

Description

Delightfully written, deftly illustrated work provides fascinating history of uses of plants -- their cultivation for medicinal purposes, flavoring, garnishes, perfumes plus their place in folklore and mythology. Material selected from variety of rare sources -- Anglo-Saxon herbals, early manuscripts, more.