200 Illustrations from Gerard's Herbal CD-ROM and Book

by John Gerard

First published more than 400 years ago, The Herbal or General History of Plants by John Gerard provided a vast storehouse of botanical information. This handsome collection of over 200 beautiful illustrations selected from that famous publication depicts a wide array of those fruits, vegetables, herbs, and garden flowers.
Included in the set are one CD-ROM containing 214 high-quality, permission-free images scanned at 600 dpi and saved in six different formats (TIFF, PICT, EPS, BMP, as well as Internet-ready JPEG and GIF); and a large-format 48-page book with every image on the CD-ROM printed large and clearly and numbered for easy reference. Also included on the CD-ROM is Dover Design Manager, a simple graphics editing program for Windows.
Ideal for craftwork as well as for use in gardening books, cookbooks, and general-interest publications, these illustrations will also delight any herbal enthusiast.

48 pages, Paperback

First published May 6, 2005

About the author

John Gerard (also John Gerarde, c. 1545–1612) was an English herbalist with a large garden in London.

Source: Wikipedia

Reviews

[Monica · Rating 3 out of 5]

The illustrations are very nice but you have to cross-reference with the printed book because the names of the plants are not on the disc!