Healing Plants HC by Editors of Abbeville Press

Product Details

• Publisher: Abbeville Publishing Group (2024-04-16)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780789254689
• Item Weight: 283.5 grams
• Dimensions: 11.76 x 10.92 x 2.54 cm

A boxed notecard set featuring beautiful prints of medicinal plants

Healing Plants features sixteen hand-colored plates from Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737–39). Blackwell, a talented artist with a passion for the natural world, published her herbal as a means of financial support after her husband landed in debtor’s prison, and it quickly became a valuable reference for doctors and apothecaries. These notecards—featuring plants like aloe, chamomile, and St. John’s Wort—are the perfect stationery for herbalists and all lovers of botanical illustration.

About the Author

Marta McDowell is a gardener, lecturer, and horticultural writer. Her books include A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell’s Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical Art (Abbeville), Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers, and Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, winner of the Gold Award from the Garden Writers Association.