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Folger bibliographic ID: 169433
ESTC number: S122353
STC number: 11750
Folger call number: STC 11750 copy 5
Folger holdings ID: 164787
Accession Number: 245029
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folio
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Largely based on Dodoens' Cruydenboeck The title page is engraved and signed: Willms. Rogers inuen. et sculp Colophon reads: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton. MDXCVII Stationers' register: entered to J. Norton 6 Jn. [1597] Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ [superscript pi]B⁶ A-3V⁸ 3X¹⁰ 4A-4T⁸ 4V⁶ 5A-5I⁴ Portions of copies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 also available as a digital reproduction Includes indexes
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Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Beyond Home Remedy (copy 5) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: pp.780-781 (copy 6)
Item information about Folger STC 11750 copy 5
Sprinkled calf binding, with the Tollemache armorial on covers. T.p. and leaves V4, V5 mounted and laid-in to size. Leaf with portrait of Gerard possibly from another copy. Manuscript shelf mark on front pastedown. Bookseller's pencilled note. Provenance: Tollemache family copy; gift of Mrs. Mary P. Massey, with her bookplate. Plant matter laid in at pages 500 and 886
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Alternate titles: Generall historie of plantes
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printer: Bollifant, Edmund, -1602
bookseller: Norton, John, -1612
bookseller: Norton, Bonham, 1565-1635
illustrator: Rogers, William, approximately 1545-
former owner: Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937
binder: Riviere & Son
former owner: Massey, Mary P.
former owner: Tunstall, Thomasin (Botanist)
former owner: Whitaker, Richard, -1648
former owner: Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649
former owner: Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683
former owner: Marden, Irene Ruth, 1898-1965