The family herbal, or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience ... / by Sir John Hill ... embellished with fifty-four coloured plates.
A popular English herbal by Sir John Hill, reissued in 1812 by C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley at Bungay, Suffolk, for households treating illness with native plants and imported drugs. The fifty-four hand-coloured plates group three or four named species per page against bare cream paper, mixing fully painted stems with uncoloured outline leaves — useful for loose botanical spot art and labelled plant clusters.
