Handbook of plant and floral ornament
Subtitle: selected from the herbals of the sixteenth century, and exhibiting the finest examples of plant-drawing found in those rare works, whether executed in wood-cuts or in copperplate engravings, arranged for the use of the decorator with supplementary illustrations and some remarks on the use of plant-form in design.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
Subjects: Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works
Notes: "Formerly titled: The craftsman's plant-book: or figures of plants."

Includes index.

Gift of Dr. Joan Rahn.

"List of the chief ancient herbals": p. 49-50.