Early modern herbals and the book trade : English stationers and the commodification of botany /

"Towards the end of the dedicatory epistle in his De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (Basel, 1542), Leonhart Fuchs turned his attention away from the study of plants to commend the person responsible for bringing his massive illustrated botanical text to fruition: At this point I should...

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Main Author:	Neville, Sarah (Assistant professor of English) (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Herbals > England > History and criticism. Botany > England > History. Publishers and publishing > England > History. Herbiers (Ouvrages) > Angleterre > Histoire et critique. Botany Herbals Publishers and publishing England English literature - Renaissance and early modern to publishing printing history history of the book history of science (general) Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Summary:	"Towards the end of the dedicatory epistle in his De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (Basel, 1542), Leonhart Fuchs turned his attention away from the study of plants to commend the person responsible for bringing his massive illustrated botanical text to fruition: At this point I should say more about the hard work and care in the printing of this book by Michael Isingrin, the most painstaking printer of Basel, except that we know that these qualities are sufficiently known and proved by the many works that have issued from his workshop for some years now. And surely this work speaks for itself well enough, as to how diligent he was in printing it"--
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781009031615 1009031619
DOI:	10.1017/9781009031615