Introduction.

The Undertaker, being desirous to make this Work more useful to such as are not furnished with other Herbals, is resolved for their Sake, to give a short Description of each Plant; the Place of Growth, and Time fo Flowring with its common uses in Physick, chiefly extracted from Mr. Joseph Miller's Botanicum Officinale with is Consent, and the ordinary Names of the Plant in different Languages.

A Curious Herbal, Containing Five Hundred Cuts of the Most Useful Plants, Which Are Now Used in the Practice of Physick was written, drawn, engraved and coloured by Elizabeth Blackwell in 1737 (Vol. 1) and 1739 (Vol. 2).