Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 3 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. Common name of plant added in elegant 19th century script to top of page. No other names or markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 5.5 x 8.5 inches. View More...