Herbals : Their Origin and Evolution. A Chapter 

 m the History of Botany, 1470- 1670. By Agnes Arber 

 {Mrs E. A. Newell Arber), D.Sc, F.L.S., Fellow of 

 Newnhani College, Cambridge, and of University College, 

 London. 



Royal 8vo. pp. xviii + 254. With frontispiece, 21 plates, and 113 text-figures. 



Price \os. hd. net. 



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Spectator. — This delightful book is a credit to Newnham scholarship and to 

 the Cambridge University Press. There never was a book richer in 

 pleasant old-world portraits and wood-cuts ; and there will never need to 

 be another book on herbals. Mrs Arber has made her book thoroughly 

 beautiful; the very initial letters of the chapters date from 1550. Among 

 the wood-cuts of herbs and flowers are many which show the utmost skill 



of design Indeed, the beauty of the book endangers the text: and 



reviewers who have souls above type will be so charmed with the 

 illustrations that they will forget to read what the book says. By which 

 forgetfulness they will miss a great wealth of scholarly, delicate, intimate 

 writing. 



Manihester Guardian. — Mrs Arber has done a most interesting piece of work, 



and done it with scholarly devotion and thoroughness Her work 



is full of charming human touches. It could hardly have been better 

 done, and not the least admirable feature of the work is the illustrations 

 to it. The choice of these exhibits not only the judgment of a scholar 



but the discernment of an artist also Mrs Arber's volume would be 



worth possessing for the illustrations alone. 



Scotsman. — A thoroughly interesting addition to the " books about books " is 



made in Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution .Apart from the 



attraction which so well executed a work has for those mterested in the 

 beginnings of botany, the illustrations make it a volume which every 

 lover of books, and especially of old books, will desire to possess. 



Church Times. — This is a book which will appeal very much to all who 



are interested in botany and its history and its connections with medicine. 

 It is a learned, exhaustive, and clear description of the herbals printed 

 during the two hundred years which followed the invention of printing 



and of woodblock illustration No book of the kind has preceded 



this, nor does it seem that room has been left for another of its kind. 



Cambridge Magazine. — Mrs Arber has produced a volume written in a lucid 

 and attractive style which is not only a contribution of real importance 

 to the history of Botany, but a book that cannot fail to appeal to the 



layman who has any artistic sense Mrs Arber's scholarly and 



sympathetic treatment of the work of the Herbalists and of the artists 

 who collaborated with them is a fitting memorial to men who regarded it 

 a privilege to have been able with the help of God to make known to 

 their fellows the gospel contained in the book of Nature. 



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