288 LISTER HERBALS AND ANCIENT BOOKS ON BOTANY. 
also the ornamental initial letters are the same as those in the 
1561 edition of ‘‘ The Great Herball.” This little book, called 
“ Cary’s ” or ‘‘ Copland’s ” Herbal, appears to have been pub¬ 
lished in 1550 ; the author’s initials, W.C., may refer either to 
William Copland or to Walter Cary. It is simply a later edition 
of the celebrated herbal of Richard Banckes, published 1525. 
[Lent by Miss Willmoit J 
Herbal of Leonardus Fuchsius (Fuchs). 
De historia stirpium. . . . Basileae, in officina Isin- 
griniana . . 1542. 
(Folio) 1st edition. 
“ The full-page wood-cuts which illustrate Fuchs’ herbal 
are of extraordinary beauty. The majority of the engravings 
in Bock’s Kreuter Buch ’ (1546), Dodoens’ ‘ Cruydeboe eke > 
(1554), Turner’s ‘ New Herball ’ (1551-1568), Lyte’s ‘ Niewe 
Herball’ (1578), and Jean Bauhin’s ‘ Historia plantarum univer¬ 
salis ’ (1651), are copied from Fuchs, or even printed from his 
actual wood-blocks.” 
The copy exhibited has the illustrations coloured: the 
colouring in many old herbals seems to have been done at a 
very early date. The plants are arranged alphabetically in 
the order of their Greek names. 
[Lent by Miss Willmott] 
“ Plantarum Effigies e Leonartho Fuchsio 
ac quinque diversis linguis redditae. Lugduni [Lyons] apud 
Balthazarum Arnoulletum. I 55 I - 
i2mo ; with a portrait of Fuchs and full-page woodcuts, 
which are those of the 1542 edition of the Herbal much 
reduced. 
[Lent by Miss Willmott] 
Lyte’s Herbal. 
“ A Niewe Herball or History of Plantes : wherein is con- 
tayned the whole discourse and perfect description of all sortes 
of Herbes and Plantes. . . . Lirst set foorth in the Doutche 
or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, 
Physitian to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out 
of Lrench into English by Henry Lvte Esquyer at London 
by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the 
signe of the Swanne 1578.” 
Small folio. 
