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Fine illustrated and antiquarian Botany . 1st. Ed. Pub. London. 1640. pp.xx, 1755, [i] with 2714 fine woodcut illus. With printed title and engraved allegorical title by Marshall incorporating a portrait of the author. Folio. Hardback. Printed title, engraved title and last leaf of index laid down. Woodcut portrait of John Parkinson to verso of engraved title. Errata leaf in facsimile on period paper. Only minor indications of age including four minor paper flaws, upper corner of p.537/8 removed (only partial loss of pagination number), five neat repairs, o/w. contents exceptional and very pleasing indeed. Later full-calf binding neatly refurbished and rebacked retaining original spine (gilt lettered morocco label) in nr. fine condition. A super copy. A magnificent work and arguably the most detailed herbal in the English language.