BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. A Curious Herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick, London: John Nourse, 1739, 2 volumes, 2°, second edition, engraved titles and text, 499 uncoloured engraved plates only (of 500, lacking plate 205, perforation stamp on title and ink stamps on verso of each leaf, some showing through to recto), contemporary sheep, spines gilt (worn). [Great Flower Books p.75; Nissen BBI 168; Pritzel 811] Provenance: JCL (2)

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BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. A Curious Herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick, London: John Nourse, 1739, 2 volumes, 2°, second edition, engraved titles and text, 499 uncoloured engraved plates only (of 500, lacking plate 205, perforation stamp on title and ink stamps on verso of each leaf, some showing through to recto), contemporary sheep, spines gilt (worn). [Great Flower Books p.75; Nissen BBI 168; Pritzel 811] Provenance: JCL (2)

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Elizabeth Blackwell compiled this herbal, originally published in parts, to raise money in order to release her husband from a debtor's prison. However, he was beheaded in 1747 after becoming involved in a plot to alter the Swedish royal succession.

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