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[38], 1630, [50] p. : ill. (woodcuts), Largely based on: Dodoens, Rembert. Cruydenboeck., The title page is engraved and signed: Io: Payne sculps:., In this edition D1r last line begins "sists"; 7B5v has errata., Running title reads: Of the history of plants., The first leaf and the last leaf are blank., Includes indexes., Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library., (DLPS) A01622.0001.001, (stc) STC 11751, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html, To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

[38], 1630, [50] p. : ill. (woodcuts), Largely based on: Dodoens, Rembert. Cruydenboeck., The title page is engraved and signed: Io: Payne sculps:., In this edition D1r last line begins "sists"; 7B5v has errata., Running title reads: Of the history of plants., The first leaf and the last leaf are blank., Includes indexes., Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library., (DLPS) A01622.0001.001, (stc) STC 11751, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html, To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

These pages come from a work titled "Generall Historie of Plants," written by a barber-surgeon named Gerard. These pages specifically focus on the differing characteristics of plum trees. They are written in English and were printed in London, England. According to the descriptive information accompanying the pages, "Gerard, a Barber-Surgeon, empoyed his energies chiefly upon horticulture and for twenty years had a renowned garden in Holborn, the fashionable suburb of London. Gerard's reputation rests on his work 'General Historie of Plants.' Most of the 1800 woodcuts used were taken from earlier herbals, but the one illustrating the potato plant is perhaps the first figure of the plant ever issued. ... The printer of this work, John Norton, alderman, Printer to Queen Elizabeth in Latin and Greek, was also the first to establish a press at the college of Eton. Norton had previously commissioned a Dr. Priest to translate into English the great botanical work of Dodoens published in 1583, but Priest died before the work was finished. Gerard adopted Priest's work, rarranged and completed it, and published it dishonestly as his own."

Title from title-page (viewed on September 25, 2000)., Digitized selections: prefatory material, p. 306-387., Collation of complete print ed.: Folio. [par.]⁸ 2[par.]-3[par.]⁶ A-B⁸ C-6V⁶ 6X⁴ 6Y-7B⁶ (leaves [par.]1 and 7B6 blank). [40], 1630 [i.e. 1634], [50] p. : ill. ; 36 cm. (Page numbers 29-30 repeated twice in sequence.), Engraved t.p., Woodcuts: illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces., Includes bibliographical references and index., STC (2nd ed.) 11751, Hunt botanical cat. 223, ESTC (RLIN) S122165, HTML file; images in jpeg format, Mode of access: World Wide Web., System requirements: graphics-capable WWW browser software., Selections digitized and made available in 2000 by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) Digital Library, University of Pennsylvania., Imperfect: t.p. torn off at top outer corner and pasted on first blank leaf; last leaf (blank) wanting.