[Sca-cooks] An interesting Herbal

[Terry Decker]

While on vacation, I bought a used copy of Joesph Wood Krutch's Herbal,
primarily because Krutch is an entertaining and informative author and the
book was illustrated with old style woodcuts.  It is a 1976 reprint of a
1965 issue.

Reading it has been a surprise and a pleasure.  The illustrations (106 of
them) are taken from Mattioli's Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
(the Prague edition of 1563 and the Venice edition of 1565).  Krutch's
comments reference period texts and he provides a brief but annotated
bibliography.

Bibliographic info is:

Krutch, Joesph Wood, Herbal; David R. Godine, Boston, 1976.

ISBN  0-87923-171-8 hardbound
         0-87923-165-3 softcover

LCC   65-20676

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