John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - title-page

Jump To Details

Move your pointing device over the image to zoom to detail. If using a mouse click on the image to toggle zoom.
When in zoom mode use + or - keys to adjust level of image zoom.

Date:1597

Description:An owner of a volume contemporary with Shakespeare has replaced a missing title-page.

The decorative title-pages of books have occasionally been damaged, or removed by their owners. This copy of the original 1597 edition has been hand-coloured throughout very soon after it was printed. Its title-page has, however, been removed and replaced with one that has part replaced by a very amateur version of the formal garden.

Full Title: John Gerarde, The Herball, [colophon: Edm. Bollifant for Bonham and John Norton], 1597. (Copy with contemporary hand-colouring.)

Timeline

The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.

1570s

Henri Estienne, A mervaylous discourse upon... Katherine de Medici…, 1575 - title page

Shakespeare may have owned this book. Shakespeare purchased New Place, the largest ...

Details »

1590s

William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 1594, leaf F4v.

Shakespeare’s first published works. The long poem, Venus and Adonis, was ...

Details »

1610s

George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - A royal picnic, p.91.

A picnic for Shakespeare's royal patron. Among the many engravings of huntsmen ...

Details »

1630s

William Shakespeare, Quartos, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - title page

A play for the Blackfriars Theatre: Shakespeare's Love’s Labour’s Lost. The ...

Details »

Related themes:

Women's Wear Wild Flowers Printing and Newspapers Printed Non-Fiction Men's Wear Manuscript Ink (Pen) & Watercolour Wash Henley Street - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust collections Gardens & Allotments Gardening Domestic Gardens 16th Century 11 Early Printed Books at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and their owners

View Location Add to album

Link to this resource Give Feedback

Donor ref:SR/OS 97.3 [827] (32/10505)

Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library

Copyright information: Copyrights to all resources are retained by the individual rights holders. They have kindly made their collections available for non-commercial private study & educational use. Re-distribution of resources in any form is only permitted subject to strict adherence to the usage guidelines.