324 A HISTORY OF GARDEN! XG IN ENGLAND. 



The grete herball newly corrected. Londini, in edibus 

 Thome Gybson. Anno MDXXXIX. FoUo 



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

 Folio 



1523 [Fitzherbert's Husbandry] A newe tracte or treatyse 



moost Drofvtable For All Husbandmen . . 



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



Small 4to. ^ 



There is a copy of this first edition in the Bodleian. In Pinson's 

 edition of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's Boke of vSur\eying, 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 

 vriter ; 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. 



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. 



\^arious other editions exist. 



1525 W. C. [Walter Cary ?] 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 ?J. 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 

 F"arewell to Physicke, printed by Denham in 1583 ; but others, 

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

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

 occiu' for the first time in Copland's edition. 



■ other editions by Skot and Kytson ; both undated 



