Wooden Cuts, t6j 
Emaculator'' afterwards, in 1633 and 
1636, procured all the blocks ivom Franks 
forty with which the Herbal of Tabern^- 
MONTANus had been illuftrated. John- 
son by this means accumulated upv/ards of 
2700 cuts. 
The blocks for Parkinson's Tbea-^ 
trufriy' and his Paradifusy' were, I appre- 
hend, cut in England I and thofe for the firft 
feem to be copied from Gerard, though 
much inferior in execution. The laft of 
the kind ufed in Englandy were a new fet cut 
for Salmon's Herbal," in 17105 except^ 
I believe, thofe for a very indifferent per- 
formance, under the name of An Herbal,'* 
publilhed lince that time, in quarto. 
The earlieft copper-plates of plants orl 
the Continent, are faid to be thofe of Co- 
lumna in his PhytobafanoSy' in 1592. In 
Englandy except fome fingle figures, and 
the few plates iti the firfl edition of Plot's 
** Oxfordfhire" in 1677, thofe of the Hif^^ 
toria Oxomenjs'' are the firfl exhibition of 
any great work ; and of thefe, the graffes 
are, to this time, perhaps unparalleled in the 
neatnefs and accuracy of the execution. 
G H A P, 
