The Herbalist's Bible

A lost classic of Western herbalismrediscovered and restored with 200 full-color images. Herbalist to King Charles I, John Parkinson (15671650) was a master apothecary, herbalist, and gardener. Famous in his own lifetime for his influential books, his magnum opus, the Theatrum Botanicum, was published in 1640 and ran to 1,766 large pages. The sheer scope and size was perhaps to prove the book’s downfall, because while it was much reveredand plagiarizedit was never reprinted and, centuries later,