A free illustrated book
The Master Herbal Bible:
Art & Botany Edition
The Master Herbal Bible: Art & Botany Edition is a 69-page illustrated book about plants: how they are built, how people have drawn and pressed them for five centuries, and the stories that grew up around them.
Inside
- how a plant is put together: leaves, flowers, roots, and what you see under a microscope
- the craft of the herbarium: pressed plants, botanical drawing and engraving
- 45 plant portraits, from rosemary and chamomile onward, each with its picture, where it grows and its place in history
- 66 pictures, every one credited to its maker with its licence (page 68)
What it is not: it is not a remedy book. It gives no recipes, no doses and no medical advice.
Format: PDF, US Letter, 69 pages, about 32 MB. A digital file; nothing is posted to you.
Licence
Free and open.
The text is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). The pictures keep their own licences, listed on page 68. You may share the file. There is no copy protection.
Compiled and published by NorthStar Prime.