OP: Herbs for the Mediaeval Household
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the jacket.
Herbs for the Mediaeval Household is a lovely book first published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1943. Handsomely designed and printed on heavy stock, it offers an appealing account of herbs, many in use from medieval times until today.
The sprightly text is illustrated with nearly a hundred beautiful woodcuts and covers the cooking, healing, poisonous, and aromatic qualities of herbs. Some, of course, may be employed in any or all of the aforementioned applications.
We offer here a Very Good, clean copy, showing only some discoloration to the case. Though it lacks the jacket, the case is attractive on its own, so it won’t be missed terribly. This is a stated fourth impression of 4500 copies. Gift inscription to the front free endpaper.
