NMLP P-042566 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

John Gerard · John Norton, London · 1597

No book-club issues exist. The single commonest misidentification is the 1636 reprint of the Johnson edition (same three publishers — Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers; STC 11752; Henrey 156), which reprints the 1633 without alteration and differs essentially only in the date on the title-page; anyone reading the 1636 as a 1633 has the wrong book. Within the Johnson issues, four pages between 30 and 31 are misnumbered 29-30, 29-30 in both 1633 and 1636, so that misnumbering is not a distinguishing point. Modern photographic facsimiles exist and are identified by their own imprints and by modern paper and binding.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-042566 for "The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes" by John Gerard (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042566, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).