Herbs for the Mediaeval Household for Cooking, Healing and Divers Uses
New York: Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 1964. Fifth printing. Hardcover. 10 1/4 by 7 3/4 inches; 260 by 198 mm. xiii, 48 pages. Hardcover, bound in decorated tan cloth-covered boards with a red cloth spine. Printed in red and black on quality paper. One-inch brown mark from removed price sticker on front pastedown; jacket price-clipped with quarter-inch closed tear at front upper corner and darkened slightly along spine. (The jacket is printed in green and red on brown paper; the spine is a little extra brown now.) Using medieval herbals Freeman describes 85 herbs, organized in sections on cooking, healing, poisoning pests, and smelling sweet. Woodcuts reproduced from medieval herbals. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #139
Price: $12.00