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and second edition (1542 and 1543) of Fuchs' magnificent 

 books, the finest in many respects of all the early herbals. 

 The beautiful woodcut illustrations were widely used — 

 by William Turner, ' the Father of English botany,' by 

 Lyte in his translation of Dodoens, by Bock (in the 1546 

 edition of his book), by Dodoens in his Kruydeboeck (1554), 

 by Bauhin in his Historia plantarum universalis (165 1), 

 and some of the figures by Egenolph in his Herb arum 

 Imagines vivoe (1535), d'Alechamps and others. Then 

 here are the splendid Low Country herbals, notably those 

 printed by Plantin. Even after seventeen years of work at 

 early garden literature I still cannot open a book with the 

 impressive inscription * Antverpiae — Ex officina Christo- 

 phori Plantini,' without a thrill. The Plantin Museum 

 is unique and presumably few who go to Antwerp fail to 

 make a pilgrimage there. It is interesting to remember 

 that this great printer only took up the work which made 

 him world famous owing to an accident to his arm, which 

 ruined his career as a bookbinder. (On a carnival night he 

 was, by mistake, run through the arm by a party of 

 masqued revellers.) In this library there are a large 

 number of the books published by Plantin — amongst 

 them Dodoen's Stirpium historiae (1583), Florum et 

 Coronarium (1569), Historia Frumentorum (1569), Clusius' 

 Rariorum aliquot stirpium, de l'Obel's Plantarum seu stir- 

 pium icones and the Flemish translation (dedicated to 

 William of Orange and the Burgomasters of Antwerp). 

 The treasures from the early Italian presses include 

 Acosta (Venice 1585), Prosper Alpini De Balsamo Dialogus 

 (Venice 1591), and De Plantes exoticis, Anguillara's 

 Semplici (Venice 1561), Marco Bussato's Giardina d' Agri- 

 coltura (Venice 1599) and the 1612 edition; Colonna's 



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