Of books and botany in early modern England : sixteenth-century plants and print culture /
Knight, Leah.
Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-152) and index.
Published virtues of the Earth : an introduction -- The bookish nature of botanical culture: continental contexts -- Botanical renaissance : a potted history  -- Words and things in humanist herbalism -- Botany by the book -- Botanical gardens in book form : the herbaria -- Botanical reformation in William Turner's books of nature --  Biographical contexts -- Anthological botany -- Turner's reforms : naming and translating -- What's in a name? : truth, falsity, and fiction -- John Gerard's uncommon ground -- The garden grows : from catalogue to herbal -- The anthology of nature : Gerard's herbal authorship -- Botanical poetics and the rhetoric of description -- Imaginary gardens : poets as herbalists -- Domesticated plants and domesticating books : cultivating household textual collection -- The place of books -- The place of plants -- Gallery and paradise -- Stillroom and study  -- Posies transposed -- Epilogue.
Turner, William, -1568.
Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
English prose literature
Literature and science
Botany
Early printed books
Botany in literature.