The herball: or, Generall historie of plantes.
By: Gathered by John Gerarde ... very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson ...
Contributors: Davies, Robert.; Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644.; Priest, Robert, ca. 1550-ca. 1590.
Publisher: Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers
Published: 1633
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1630
Subjects: Botany -- Pre-Linnean works; Herbs -- Early works to 1800; Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800; Herbals -- Early works to 1800
Notes: 1 v. in 2.
Engraved title page.
Imperfect: first and last leaves (blank) wanting.
"A catalogue of the Brittish [i. e. Welsh] names of plants, sent me by Master Robert Davyes of Guissaney in Flint-Shire": p. [31-32] at end.
STC 11751.  Hunt 223.
Virtually a translation of Rembert Dodoens' Stirpium historiae pemptades sex (first published in 1583) made by a member of the London College of Physicians, Robert Priest, who died before it was printed.  The manuscript came into the hands of Gerard, who issued the work as his own.  Cf. Hunt 175.