204 BIBLIOGRAPHIES 



There is the following note on a slip in the copy of this edition in the 

 British Museum. ' ' This is generally considered to be the finest copy known 

 of a work which is certainly the chef ' d'ceuvre of Winkin de Worde's press. 

 The paper on which it is printed is said to be the first ever made in England 

 for the press. See Douce, ii. 278. Dibdin, Typt. Ant. ii. 310." 



I 535- Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum. Londini in Aedibus Thomae 

 Berthelete. Regii Impressoris. 



1582. Batman uppon Bartholome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum. 

 Newly corrected, enlarged and amended : with such Additions as are 

 requisite unto every seuerall Booke : Taken foorth of the most approved 

 Authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all 

 Estates as well for the benefite of the Mind as the Bodie. London. 

 Imprinted by Thomas East, dwelling by Paules Wharf e. 



(For foreign editions, French, Dutch and Spanish translations, see 

 Bibliography of Foreign Printed Herbals, p. 225.) 



Banckes's Herbal. 



1525. If Here begynnyth a new mater/ the whiche sheweth and | treateth of 

 y 8 vertues & proprytes of her- 1 bes / the whiche is called | an Herballj * . | 

 If Cum gratia & priuilegio | a rege indulto | 



Colophon. \ Imprynted by me Rycharde Banckes / dwellynge in | 

 Lodo / a lytel fro y* Stockes in ye Pultry / y xxv day of | Marche. The 

 yere of our Lorde, M.CCCCC. & XXV. Black-letter 4to. 



1526. Second edition of above. Only known copy is in the Cambridge 

 University Library. Title and colophon identical except for slight 

 differences in spelling. 



Here begynneth a newe marer / y* whiche sheweth and 

 the vertues & propertes of her- | bes / the whiche is callyd 



treateth of 

 . an Herball 

 Cum priuilegio. 



Colophon, ^f Imprynted by me Rycharde Banckes / dwellynge in [ 

 Lodo / a lytell fro y* Stockes in y* Pultry / ye xxv daye of June. The 

 yere of our Lorde, M.CCCCC. & XXVI. Black-letter 4to. 

 1530. (approximate date assigned in the catalogue of the British Museum). 

 A boke of | the propertyes | of herbes the | whiche is | called an | Herbal 

 I*' 



Colophon. Imprynted at 

 George by| me Robert Red- 



London in Fletestrete at | the sygne of the 

 man . . I >J< | Black-letter 8vo. 



1532-1537 (approximate date assigned by Mr. H. M. Barlow). ' ' A boke of 

 the propertyes of herbes the which is called an Herbal.' Contains k 4 . 

 ' At the end, Imprynted at London by me John Skot dwellynge in Fauster 

 Lane.' This over his device which is his cypher on a shield, hung on a 

 rose-tree, flowering above the shield, supported by two griffins : at the 

 bottom is a dog nearly couchant ; I. S., the initials of his name, one on 

 each side of the trunk of the tree. In the collection of Mr. Alchorne. 

 Twelves." 



The above is quoted from Herbert's edition of Ames, 1785. No copy 

 of the work can now be found in any of the chief British libraries. 



