An Herbarium for the Fair: Being a Book of Common Herbs with Etchings
Betty Shaw-Lawrence, Thomas FassamLondon: The Hand & Flower Press, 1949.
First Edition.
26cm x 20.5cm. 94 pages, engraved title and 20 signed full-page engravings within the text. Original half leather, gilt lettering, top edge gilt.
Together with Curious Notes on their Histories and Uses for the Furtherance of Loveliness and Love (such as for Taking Away Hair, Bettering the Breasts, the Ease of Sighings, Making a Person Chaste, Loth to Love, and Turning a Person’s Head). One of 250 numbered copies (from a total edition of 260), signed by Fassam, each of the 20 plates signed by the artist.
. Fine Condition.
AU$500
SKU: 0037516
Categories: Art & Design, Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia, Medicine & Health, Natural History





