[Sca-cooks] Dating John Gerarde

[Johnna Holloway]

The English Short Title Catalogue  lists editions for 1597, 1633, and 1636.

Gerard, John, 1545-1612.     The herball or Generall historie of plantes.
Imprinted at London : by [Edm. Bollifant for [Bonham Norton and] Iohn 
Norton,     1597.

Gerard, John, 1545-1612.     The herball or Generall historie of 
plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London.
London : Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers, anno 
1633.
[There's the 2008 Gerard's Herbal: Selections from the 1633 Enlarged and 
Amended Edition.]

Gerard, John, 1545-1612.     The herball or Generall historie of plantes.
London : printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 
anno 1636
[A 303 page "distilled by Marcus Woodward from the edition of Th. 
Johnson, 1636" edition
under the title  Gerard's Herball  was published in 1985.]

A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the 
years ...
 By John Gerard, Benjamin Daydon Jackson(1876 edition) is up in full 
text on Google Books.

There are a number of editions based on the Herball of course in 
addition to those mentioned here.
I have the hardbound Dover which is The Herbal or General History of 
Plants (Deluxe Clothbound Edition) (Hardcover)on the shelf.
It's also up on EEBO and EEBO-TCP for those with academic connections.

Hope this helps,

Johnna

Terry Decker wrote:
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>> I've got both a 1633 and a 1636 publication date for that edition, so
>> perhaps Johnna can help settle that discrepency.
>>
>> Bear>>>>
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