332 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



Th'e grete herball newly corrected. Londini, in edibus 



Thome Gybson. Anno MDXXXIX. Folio 

 The greate Herball . . London, Jhon Kynge, MDLXI. Folio 



1523 [FITZHERBERT'S HUSBANDRY] A newe tracte or treatyse 

 moost profytable For All Husbandmen . . 

 Imprinted . . by Rycharde Pynson [in or before 1523]. 

 Small 4to. 



In Pinson's edition of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's Boke of Survey- 

 ing, printed in 1523, this book is mentioned as having been already 

 published. Its date cannot therefore be later than that year. The 

 authorship by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert is considered doubtful, and 

 in the B. M. Catalogue it is suggested that John Fitzherbert may 

 have been the writer ; but it is clear that Pinson and Berthelet 

 both regarded the judge as the author. For a full discussion of the 

 subject, it will be well to consult the reprint of the Treatise, which 

 was edited by W. W. Skeat for the English Dialect Society in 1882, 

 and also a paper read by Mr. Ernest Clarke, M.A., F.S.A., before the 

 Bibliographical Society in 1896, in which the arguments in favour 

 of the authorship of John, Sir Anthony's elder brother, are very 

 strong. 



- another edition. Small 4to. in the B. M. supposed to 



have been printed about 1525. 



- another edition. Thomas Berthelet, 1534. Small 8vo. 



- another edition, by the same printer in 1548. Small 8vo. 



Various other editions exist. 



1525 W. C. [WALTER GARY ?] Here begynnyth a newe mater, the 

 whiche sheweth and treateth of ye vertues & proprytes 

 of herbes, the whiche is called an Herball. London, 

 R. Banckes, 1525. Small 4to. 



- another edition. Robert Redman [1530 ?]. Small 8vo. 



- A boke of the propreties of Herbes called an herball . . 



Also a generall rule of all maner of Herbes drawen 

 out of an auncyent booke of Phisyck by W. C. 

 W. Copland for J. Wyght [1552 ?]. Small 8vo. 

 The letters W. C. are supposed by the B. M. cataloguers and by 

 the older writers to mean Walter Cary, whose name appears on the 

 Farewell to Physicke, printed by Denham in 1583 ; but others, 

 including the writer in the Diet, of Nat. Biogr., take them to mean 

 William Copland the printer ; and it is to be remembered that they 

 occur for the first time in Copland's edition. 



other editions by Skot and Kytson ; both undated 



