Tractatus de Herbis: British Library Egerton MS 747

Minta Collins

London

:

The Folio Society

,

2002

.
First Thus.

39.5cm x 27cm (box size). 109, [7] pages, full green leather, leather onlays, bevelled decoration, gilt lettering, full gilt edges. 76 pages. Quarter cloth, papered boards, paper label. 2 volumes housed in a cloth clamshell box with paper label.

First reproduction of the illustrated herbal manuscript held in the collection of the British Library, being manuscript Egerton MS 747. Produced in a numbered edition of 1,000 in full goatskin leather, of which this is number 3. Accompanied by a volume of commentary by Minta Collins with a list of plants by Sandra Raphael.

Foxing to last page of main volume and to paper label on commentary volume, minor to main volume leather and edges of commentary volume. Bump and some soiling to clamshell lid. Good Condition.

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